generate random digits with length of 5

[Michael Ströder]

Gary M. Josack wrote:
> 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.

Why do you think it's wrong?

>>> import random
>>> '%05i'%random.randint(0,99999)
'09449'
>>>

IMO it's exactly what was required.

Ciao, Michael.