Whats the simplest and safest method to generate a API KEY and SECRET in Python
Question: I need to generate a API key and Secret that would be stored in a Redis
server. What would be the best way to generate a key and secret?

I am develop a Django-tastypie framework based app.


Answer: EDIT: for a very secure way of generating random number, you should use
urandom:

    
    
    from binascii import hexlify
    
    key = hexlify(os.urandom(lenght))
    

this will produce bytes, call `key.decode()` if you need a string

You can just generate keys of your desired length the python way:

    
    
    import random
    import string
    
    def generate_key(length):
        ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits) for _ in range(length))
    

And then you can just call it with your desired length `key =
generate_key(40)`.  
You can specify what alphabet you want to use, for example using only
`string.ascii_lowercase` for key consisting of only lowercase letters etc.

There is also Model for Api authentication in tastypie, might be worth
checking out <https://django-
tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/authentication.html#apikeyauthentication>

