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| -rw-r--r-- | cloudinit/util.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/cloudinit/util.py b/cloudinit/util.py index 0d21e11b..2931efbd 100644 --- a/cloudinit/util.py +++ b/cloudinit/util.py @@ -335,6 +335,14 @@ def rand_str(strlen=32, select_from=None): select_from = string.ascii_letters + string.digits return "".join([random.choice(select_from) for _x in range(0, strlen)]) +def rand_dict_key(dictionary, postfix=None): + if not postfix: + postfix = "" + while True: + newkey = rand_str(strlen=8) + "_" + postfix + if newkey not in dictionary: + break + return newkey def read_conf(fname): try: |