Author: clsung

Create file with random string in python

#!/usr/bin/env python
import string
import random

out_file = 'text_file.txt'
file_size = 1024 * 1024

rands = lambda x: ''.join(random.choice(string.letters + string.digits) for x in xrange(x))
with open(out_file, 'w') as f:
f.write(rands(file_size))

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