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

Regarding the last example, the following fix to make sure the line is even length, whatever the junk_len value:

junk_len = 1024
junk =  (("%%0%dX" % (junk_len * 2)) % random.getrandbits(junk_len * 8)).decode("hex")