generate random digits with length of 5

[Gary M. Josack]

Aaron "Castironpi" Brady wrote:
> On Sep 28, 2:59 pm, sotirac <soti... at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Wondering if there is a better way to generate string of numbers with
>> a length of 5 which also can have a 0 in the front of the number.
>>
>> <pre>
>>  random_number = random.sample([0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], 5) # choose 5
>> elements
>>  code = 'this is a string' + str(random_number[0]) +
>> str(random_number[1]) + str(random_number[2]) + str(random_number[3])
>> + str(random_number[4])
>> </pre>
>>     
>
> '%05i'%random.randint(0,99999)
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This produces numbers other than 5 digit numbers. making the start 
number 10000 should be fine.