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A simple Django snippet to generate unique username
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from random import choice | |
from string import ascii_lowercase, digits | |
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model | |
def generate_random_username(length=16, chars=ascii_lowercase+digits, split=4, delimiter='-'): | |
username = ''.join([choice(chars) for i in xrange(length)]) | |
if split: | |
username = delimiter.join([username[start:start+split] for start in range(0, len(username), split)]) | |
try: | |
//check if username already exist | |
get_user_model().objects.get(username=username) | |
return generate_random_username(length=length, chars=chars, split=split, delimiter=delimiter) | |
except User.DoesNotExist: | |
return username |
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