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Generate a Meteor-style object ID from python for use in MongoDB
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meteor-random.py
def genMeteorID(length=17):
UNMISTAKABLE_CHARS = "23456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz"
randomString = ""
for i in range(length):
randomString += random.choice(UNMISTAKABLE_CHARS)
return randomString
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