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compressing a bunch of id's to construct a url
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gistfile1.py
import random
import base64
import zlib
random_ids = [''.join([random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase) for x in range(8)]) for n in range(1000)]
long_string = ','.join(random_ids)
b64_string = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(long_string)
compressed_string = zlib.compress(long_string, 9)
b64_compressed_string = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(compressed_string)
len(long_string)
len(b64_string)
len(compressed_string)
len(b64_compressed_string)
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