[FIXED] Pythonic way to create a big random base-29 number

Issue

I'm creating a program which has to handle rather big ints in python. Ranging from 0-10⁴⁶⁷⁷. Internally, I represent them with as base-29 integers. Thus using the alfabet: 012345679ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS.

I created a function to create a random base-29 variable of any length in python. But is there a shorter, more pythonic way possible? (if this is even a proper way of doing it).

The function to create a random base-29 number:

import random

def random_base(base_number = 29, length = 10)
    alfabet = "012345679ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS"
    return [alfabet[random.randint(0,base_number - 1)] for _ in range(length)]

Thus, is there some built-in python function to perform this, or is this the way to go?

Please comment if things are unclear!

Thanks in Advance

Solution

You can use slices and random.choices

import random

def random_base(base_number = 29, length = 10):
    alfabet = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS"
    return "".join(random.choices(alfabet[:base_number], k=length))

Answered By - Eugenij