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making setup_repo almost a real program
author Jeff Hammel <jhammel@mozilla.com>
date Fri, 10 May 2013 00:29:17 -0700
parents 3c193788a0db
children bea4dd61ae45
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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
return a random URL hash
"""

import random
import urllib

chars = [ chr(i) for i in range(0,255) ]
allowed = [ urllib.quote_plus(i) for i in chars 
            if urllib.quote_plus(i) in chars ]

def urlhash(len=10):
  chars = random.sample(allowed, len)
  string = ''.join(chars)
  return urllib.quote_plus(string)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  print urlhash()