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Need a pronounceable random n-character string? (random-string.com)
3 points by nsfmc on Sept 5, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I can probably get my brain to generate one faster than visiting a web page :) .... but here's something similar in python:

    import string
    import random
    
    def random_pronoucable(minpairs=8,maxpairs=10):
    	consonants='bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz'
    	vowels='aeiou'
    	password=''
    	for x in range(1,random.randint(int(minpairs),int(maxpairs))):
    		password += consonants[random.randint(1,len(consonants)-1)] + vowels[random.randint(1,len(vowels)-1)]
    	return password




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