From adcd0f72ac3845ceced62966fa45d37a57c5b6bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Szczys <szczys@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 09:46:41 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Initial Commit

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 README.md                              |  4 ++++
 unique-string-gen/unique-string-gen.py | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 unique-string-gen/unique-string-gen.py

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+nfc-voting
+==========
+
+Python script generates unique values
diff --git a/unique-string-gen/unique-string-gen.py b/unique-string-gen/unique-string-gen.py
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+###########
+# Generate Unique Strings
+# - Store them as a pickle file
+###########
+
+# References:
+# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2257441/python-random-string-generation-with-upper-case-letters-and-digits
+
+import string
+import random
+import pickle
+
+setSize = 500
+uniqueLen = 4
+
+uniqueSet = []
+
+print "Generating Set"
+while (len(uniqueSet) < setSize):
+    if len(uniqueSet)%50 == 49:
+        print str(len(uniqueSet)+1) + " values have been generated"
+    n = random.choice(range(0xFFFF))
+    if n not in uniqueSet:
+        uniqueSet.append(n)
+        
+pickle.dump(uniqueSet, open( "uniqueSet.pkl", "wb"))
+
+print "Saved to uniqueSet.pkl"
+print
+
+
+