Generate random numbers in Python

Python random module helps to generate random numbers.
We can generate this in three ways

• randint(a, b)
• uniform(a, b)
• random()

randint(a, b) : returns a random integer number in the range [a, b]
uniform(a, b) : returns a floating point number in the range [a, b]
random() : returns a floating point number in the range [0, 1]

>>> import random
>>> a = random.randint(1,99)
>>> a
77
>>> b = random.uniform(1,999)
>>> b
766.6455229055509
>>> c = random.random()
>>> c
0.6372421095384033
>>>

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Convert PDF to JPEG Python

Convert pdf file to image file using 'PythonMagick' in Python. PythonMagick provides object oriented bindings for the ImageMagick Library. You can dowload PythonMagick

Ex:

>>> import PythonMagick
>>> pdf = 'Invoices.pdf'
>>> p = PythonMagick.Image()
>>> p.density('600')
>>> p.read(pdf)
>>> p.write('test_image.jpg')
>>>

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Date in Python and its Conversion

Current date in Python using 'time' module

>>> import time
>>> time.strftime("format")

Ex:

>>> import time
>>> time.strftime("%d-%m-%Y")
'20-05-2014'

>>> time.strftime("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S")
'20-05-2014 12:17:51'

Current date in Python using 'datetime' module

>>> import datetime
>>> now = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> now
datetime.datetime(2014, 5, 20, 12, 19, 16, 547221)
>>> now.year
2014
>>> now.month
5
>>> now.day
20
>>> now.hour
12
>>> now.minute
19
>>> now.second
16
>>> now.microsecond
547221
>>>

Change date format using time module

syntax:

time.strftime('required format', time.strptime('date data', 'source format'))

Ex:

>>> import time
>>> d1 = time.strftime('%d-%m-%Y', time.strptime('2014-05-10', '%Y-%m-%d'))
>>> d1
'10-05-2014'
>>>

Convert date to datetime using datetime module

Ex:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> d1 = datetime.strftime(datetime.strptime('2014-05-10', '%Y-%m-%d'), "%Y-%m-%d 00:00:00")
>>> d1
'2014-05-10 00:00:00'
>>> d2 = datetime.strftime(datetime.strptime('2014-05-10', '%Y-%m-%d'), "%Y-%m-%d 23:59:59")
>>> d2
'2014-05-10 23:59:59'
>>> d1, d2
('2014-05-10 00:00:00', '2014-05-10 23:59:59')
>>>

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Generate random password in Python

To generate random password in Python

import string
import random
from random import sample

def create_password(self):
        """
        create a random password
        """
        rand = string.ascii_letters + string.digits
        length = 8
        passwd = ''.join(sample(rand, length))
        return passwd

Ex:

>>> import string
>>> import random
>>> from random import sample
>>> rand = string.ascii_letters + string.digits
>>> length = 8
>>> passwd = ''.join(sample(rand, length))
>>> passwd
'8fK6ZR0q'
>>>

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Number of days between two dates/ date differences in Python

To find the number of days between two given dates or to find the difference between two dates in Python. This function generally needs in many case in most of the program.

from datetime import datetime

def days_between(d1, d2):
    d1 = datetime.strptime(d1, "%Y-%m-%d")
    d2 = datetime.strptime(d2, "%Y-%m-%d")
    return abs((d2 - d1).days)

Example:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> d1 = '2014-05-10'
>>> d2 = '2014-05-05'
>>> d1 = datetime.strptime(d1, "%Y-%m-%d")
>>> d2 = datetime.strptime(d2, "%Y-%m-%d")
>>> no_of_days = abs((d2 - d1).days)
>>> no_of_days
5 

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Remove duplicates from a list in Python

The python built in function 'set()' helps to remove the duplicates from a list.

consider an example:

>>> list1 = [1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8]
>>> list1
[1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8]
>>> set(list1)
set([1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8])
>>> list(set(list1))
[1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8]
>>>

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