uid2name.py

import numpy as np
import hashlib

with open('names.txt', 'r') as f:
    names = f.read().splitlines()


def uid2name(string, num):
    hashobj = hashlib.sha256(string.encode('utf-8'))
    val_hex = int(hashobj.hexdigest(), 16)%(2**32-1)
    np.random.seed(val_hex)
    idx = np.random.randint(0, len(names), (num,))
    name = "-".join([names[i] for i in idx])
    return name


if __name__ == '__main__':
    import fire;fire.Fire(uid2name)

script to choose a name from any string