Generate a Unique String in Python/Django

Question

What I want is to generate a string(key) of size 5 for my users on my website. More like a BBM PIN.

The key will contain numbers and uppercase English letters:

Answer 1

There is a function in django that does what you're looking for (credits to this answer):

Django provides the function get_random_string() which will satisfy the alphanumeric string generation requirement. You don't need any extra package because it's in the django.utils.crypto module.

>>> from django.utils.crypto import get_random_string
>>> unique_id = get_random_string(length=32)
>>> unique_id
u'rRXVe68NO7m3mHoBS488KdHaqQPD6Ofv'

You can also vary the set of characters with allowed_chars:

>>> short_genome = get_random_string(length=32, allowed_chars='ACTG')
>>> short_genome
u'CCCAAAAGTACGTCCGGCATTTGTCCACCCCT'