alphanum-code 0.1.1

AlphaNumeric unique consecutive code generator.

This module generates unique consecutive alphanumeric codes of specified size. A comment can be associated with a code on request.

Requirements

• python >= 2.7

• SQLAchemy

Package depencies are included in alphanum_code package and will be automatically installed. For more details, see requirements.txt.

Install

Install from PyPI:

pip install alphanum_code

Install from source:

`bash git clone https://github.com/ylaizet/alphanum_code cd alphanum_code pip install -e . `

Usage

>>> from alphanum_code import AlphaNumCodeManager
>>> dbname = "sqlite:///test_alphanum.sqlite"
>>> manager = AlphaNumCodeManager(dbname)
>>> first_code = manager.next_code("with comment")
>>> print("my first code:", first_code)

Notes

• Alphanumeric order is digits then letters : 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

• Letters in the alphanumeric code are UPPERCASE.

Tips

At manager instanciation, you can set:

• code_size to specify the lenght of the code you want to generate each time

• init_code to specify the starting point for code generation

Test

Install Pytest

pip install pytest

Run test from base directory

python -m pytest tests/