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Created June 30, 2012 01:11
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Generate random strings for password
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random_string.rb
16.times.map { rand(1 + ?~.ord - _ = ?!.ord) + _ }.pack('c*')
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aji commented Jun 30, 2012 

from string import ascii_letters
with open('/dev/urandom') as f:
    print(''.join([ascii_letters[ord(byte) % len(ascii_letters)] for byte in f.read(16)]))

Python isn't as pretty as Ruby :(

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takai commented Jun 30, 2012

looks stubborn for me 😄

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