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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

You're reading from   Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja Over 70 recipes that uncover powerful programming tactics in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788294874
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
1. Working with Python Modules FREE CHAPTER 2. Utilizing the Python Interpreter 3. Working with Decorators 4. Using Python Collections 5. Generators, Coroutines, and Parallel Processing 6. Working with Python's Math Module 7. Improving Python Performance with PyPy 8. Python Enhancement Proposals 9. Documenting with LyX 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Using the secrets module


This module, while not part of the math set, is important because it makes random numbers that are cryptographically secure. Thus, we will look at how this module differs from the random module.

How to do it...

  • SystemRandom class is the same as the random.SystemRandom class, that is, it provides random numbers and uses the best quality random seeding sources of the system.
  • choice(sequence) method also works just like the random.choice() method.
  • randbelow(n) function returns a random integer in the range [0, n).
  • randbits(k) method returns an integer with k random bits.
  • token_bytes([nbytes=None]) function returns a random byte string. If nbytes is not provided, a reasonable default is used; if provided, the returned string contains that many bytes.
  • token_hex([nbytes=None]) function returns a random text string in hex. The bytes used in the string are converted to two hex digits each.
  • token_urlsafe([nbytes=None]) function returns a random, URL-safe text string of random bytes...
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