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Before we start i’d like to mention that with our last fcolor() function we write some comments in the first part of the function between three double quote(“””), and if we load the function and call help() as help(fcolor()) we will get that information on the python console as a help as in screen shot.

In this post we will write a function to generate a fake ID number, for ID’s there could be several styles, sometime we just want a random number without any meaning; just X number of random digits. Most of the time we need this number to be mean-full based on certain rules. For example, in Banks they may use some digits that indicate the branch. In sport club, they may include the date … and so-on.

Here we will write a function called key_generator(), the function will take two arguments (dig, s) dig is your key digits number, s is the style, if s = d then the first 6 digits of the key will be the date as ddmmyy + random digits, and if s = anything else or s not passed then the key will be as default (just x-digits). Let’s see the code.

First the summary or say information about the function:

def key_generator(dig, s = 'n'):
    """
       ### Date: 8/12/2019, By: Ali Radwani ###
       Summary:
            This function will generate x-digit key randomly.
            If the argument s = 'd' or 'D' then the key is two part, first (6) digits
            are date as ddmmyy then x-digit random numbers.

            If the argument s anything else than ['d','D'] or no argument passes, then the key
            is random numbers without any meaning.

            The numbers will randomly be selected in range of (10 to 99).

            import: random, datetime

            Argument: int: dig: The number of digits for the key.
                 str: s  : The key style (with date or just random numbers)

            return: int: the_key
    """

Now, if the user pass s=’d’ then part of the key will be the current date, to do this we will call the datetime function in python and split it into dd,mm,yy. Here is the key_generator() function.

def key_generator(dig, s = 'n'):
    """
       ### Date: 8/12/2019, By: Ali Radwani ###
       Summary:
            This function will generate x-digit key randomly.
            If the argument s = 'd' or 'D' then the key is two part, first (6) digits
            are date as ddmmyy then x-digit random numbers.

            If the argument s anything else than ['d','D'] or no argument passes, then the key
            is random numbers without any meaning.

            The numbers will randomly be selected in range of (10 to 99).

            import: random, datetime

            Argument: int: dig: The number of digits for the key.
                 str: s  : The key style (with date or just random numbers)

            return: int: the_key
    """
    the_key=''
    if s in ['d','D'] :
        d = str(datetime.date.today())
        dd = d[8:10]
        mm = d[5:7]
        yy = d[2:4]
        the_key = dd + mm + yy
        for x in range (dig):
            the_key = the_key + str( random.randint(10,99))
        return int(the_key[:(dig + 6)])
        
    else :
        for x in range (dig):
            the_key = the_key + str( random.randint(10,99))

        return int(the_key[:dig])

In next Fake Data function we will try to write one to generate the date. It will be published on next Sunday.

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