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<h1>Source code for searx.answerers.random</h1><div class="highlight"><pre>
<span></span><span class="c1"># SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later</span>
<span class="c1"># pylint: disable=missing-module-docstring</span>
<span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">__future__</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">annotations</span>
<span class="kn">import</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">hashlib</span>
<span class="kn">import</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">random</span>
<span class="kn">import</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">string</span>
<span class="kn">import</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">uuid</span>
<span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">flask_babel</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">gettext</span>
<span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">searx.result_types</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Answer</span>
<span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">searx.result_types.answer</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">BaseAnswer</span>
<span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">.</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Answerer</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">AnswererInfo</span>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">random_characters</span><span class="p">():</span>
<span class="n">random_string_letters</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">string</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ascii_lowercase</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">string</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">digits</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">string</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ascii_uppercase</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">choice</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random_string_letters</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">_</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">32</span><span class="p">))]</span>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">random_string</span><span class="p">():</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="s1">''</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random_characters</span><span class="p">())</span>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">random_float</span><span class="p">():</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="p">())</span>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">random_int</span><span class="p">():</span>
<span class="n">random_int_max</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">31</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">random_int_max</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">random_int_max</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">random_sha256</span><span class="p">():</span>
<span class="n">m</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">hashlib</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sha256</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">m</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">update</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">''</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">random_characters</span><span class="p">())</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">encode</span><span class="p">())</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">hexdigest</span><span class="p">())</span>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">random_uuid</span><span class="p">():</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">uuid</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">uuid4</span><span class="p">())</span>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">random_color</span><span class="p">():</span>
<span class="n">color</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">"</span><span class="si">%06x</span><span class="s2">"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mh">0xFFFFFF</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">"#</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">color</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">upper</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">"</span>
<div class="viewcode-block" id="SXNGAnswerer">
<a class="viewcode-back" href="../../../dev/answerers/random.html#searx.answerers.random.SXNGAnswerer">[docs]</a>
<span class="k">class</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nc">SXNGAnswerer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Answerer</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="sd">"""Random value generator"""</span>
<span class="n">keywords</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s2">"random"</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">random_types</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="s2">"string"</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">random_string</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">"int"</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">random_int</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">"float"</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">random_float</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">"sha256"</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">random_sha256</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">"uuid"</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">random_uuid</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">"color"</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">random_color</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<div class="viewcode-block" id="SXNGAnswerer.info">
<a class="viewcode-back" href="../../../dev/answerers/random.html#searx.answerers.random.SXNGAnswerer.info">[docs]</a>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">AnswererInfo</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="n">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">gettext</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="vm">__doc__</span><span class="p">),</span>
<span class="n">description</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">gettext</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"Generate different random values"</span><span class="p">),</span>
<span class="n">keywords</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">keywords</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">examples</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">"random </span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">"</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random_types</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">)</span></div>
<div class="viewcode-block" id="SXNGAnswerer.answer">
<a class="viewcode-back" href="../../../dev/answerers/random.html#searx.answerers.random.SXNGAnswerer.answer">[docs]</a>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">answer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">query</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">-></span> <span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">BaseAnswer</span><span class="p">]:</span>
<span class="n">parts</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">query</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">split</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">parts</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="ow">or</span> <span class="n">parts</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random_types</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">[]</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">Answer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">answer</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random_types</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">parts</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]]())]</span></div>
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