Random strings in Python 2.6 (Is this OK?)

Question

I\'ve been trying to find a more pythonic way of generating random string in python that can scale as well. Typically, I see something similar to

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Answer 1

Sometimes a uuid is short enough and if you don't like the dashes you can always.replace('-', '') them

from uuid import uuid4

random_string = str(uuid4())

If you want it a specific length without dashes

random_string_length = 16
str(uuid4()).replace('-', '')[:random_string_length]