Using ascii Characters by Import

Question

So I am making a random name generator and I want to import ASCII instead of just writing out all of it. Is there any way I can import it into my code? I have tried doing the code below which doesn't do anything, please help

When I ran it, nothing happened, maybe I'm using it wrong? I have never tried importing it before

"".join(chr(x) for x in range(32,127))

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Answer 1

Use string module:

import string

# You have to store the result in a variable to use it
choices = ''.join([string.ascii_letters, string.digits, string.punctuation, ' '])

print(choices)
# Output
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~ '

To use it:

import random

# Select one character
print(random.choice(choices))
# Output
';'

# Generate string
print(''.join(random.choices(choices, k=16)))
# Output
Phhs5uYa]O^+]kJz

For your information, choices is equivalent to your code (same characters):

>>> set(choices).symmetric_difference("".join(chr(x) for x in range(32,127)))
set()