base_whatever_encoding.py

def base36encode(number, alphabet='23456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTUVWXYZ'):
    """Converts an integer to a base36 string."""
    if not isinstance(number, (int, long)):
        raise TypeError('number must be an integer')

    base36 = ''
    sign = ''

    if number < 0:
        sign = '-'
        number = -number

    if 0 <= number < len(alphabet):
        return sign + alphabet[number]

    while number != 0:
        number, i = divmod(number, len(alphabet))
        base36 = alphabet[i] + base36

    return sign + base36

def base36decode(number):
    return int(number, 36)


for i in range(37, 1000):
	print base36encode(i).lower(), ' ', 

encode/decode source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1181922