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I recently found the following in a bit of #python sample code:

random_data = random.sample(string.hexdigits, 8)

Wait, hexdigits? I’d use string.ascii_letters and string.ascii_lowercase before, but this was the first time I’d seen hexdigits, which is exactly what you’d think:

The string ‘0123456789abcdefABCDEF’.

That’s useful.