Timeline for Generate 10 random 3-letter strings

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Jul 10, 2018 at 12:23	history	edited	esote	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 6 characters in body
Jul 10, 2018 at 11:59	comment	added	Graipher		Wow, it is actually faster: `%timeit [0 for _ in range(10000000)]`: 325 ms ± 1.38 ms, `%timeit [0 for _ in repeat(None, 10000000)]`: 184 ms ± 1.72 ms. That's a factor 2! (Of course this is only relevant as long as looping dominates the timing and not the execution of the function itself.)
Jul 10, 2018 at 11:48	history	edited	esote	CC BY-SA 4.0	Use secrets module
Jul 10, 2018 at 11:35	comment	added	esote		@IzaakvanDongen thanks for your feedback, I've edited my answer to include your suggestions (and fixed `itrertools.repeat`, I'd forgotten that it returns the same thing N times, instead of calling it N times).
Jul 10, 2018 at 11:34	history	edited	esote	CC BY-SA 4.0	Fixes
Jul 10, 2018 at 9:51	comment	added	Izaak van Dongen		You should probably only be using one SystemRandom instance. Also, if you're `extend`ing an empty list with a generator expression you might as well just use a list comprehension. Lastly, your use of `itertools.repeat` just produces the same string 10 times - this may be random in the XKCD sense but probably isn't what OP was after.
Jul 10, 2018 at 2:14	history	edited	esote	CC BY-SA 4.0	Properly use itertools.repeat
Jul 10, 2018 at 2:02	history	edited	esote	CC BY-SA 4.0	Use extend
Jul 10, 2018 at 1:55	history	edited	esote	CC BY-SA 4.0	Use array
Jul 10, 2018 at 1:44	history	answered	esote	CC BY-SA 4.0