How can I convert a python urandom to a string?
The code below will work on both Python 2.7 and 3:
from base64 import b64encodefrom os import urandomrandom_bytes = urandom(64)token = b64encode(random_bytes).decode('utf-8')
You have random bytes; I'd be very surprised if that ever was decodable to a string.
If you have to have a unicode string, decode from Latin-1:
a.decode('latin1')
because it maps bytes one-on-one to corresponding Unicode code points.
You can use base-64 encoding. In this case:
a = os.urandom(64)a.encode('base-64')
Also note that I'm using encode
here rather than decode
, as decode
is trying to take it from whatever format you specify into unicode. So in your example, you're treating the random bytes as if they form a valid utf-8
string, which is rarely going to be the case with random bytes.