Fastest method to generate big random string with lower Latin letters

Question

I\'m trying to solve this problem from Timus Online Judge. To solve this problem you need generate a sequence of 1 000 000 lowercase Latin letters and write it to stdin in

Answer 1

Use random.choices?

On Python 3.6:

import random
import string

%timeit ''.join(random.choices(string.ascii_lowercase, k=10**6))
1 loop, best of 3: 235 ms per loop