Generating random UTF-8 strings

[Harri Paavola]

Hi,

How can I get random UTF-8 strings from Python files to Robot Framework? Let's say I have we have Python script like this
import os
def generate_random_utf8_string(length=8):
    random_string = os.urandom(length)
    return random_string

And test suite like this
*** Settings ***
Library           String
Library           random_utf8_string

*** Test Cases ***
Foo
    ${string}    generate_random_utf8_string
    Log    ${string}
    Log    P=×& QÏ ﾱﾼ%ÎÅüﾂrﾈ>æﾐ T̆[PÙWqﾬOáGﾀﾱ> ﾇʰﾋþǗsàòÜ ﾀﾝCﾊg1 ﾆﾆﾗò iAÉ( mnßvÕȆŁ K"bﾢÿﾠVﾸﾖ:ABJﾼݤﾔ

Only the latter Log will actually log UTF-8 string, the first one will log something like 9\xe7g\x7f\xae\x06\xeb\xe8g (always \x[something] repeated)

[Harri Paavola]

To answer my own question, the Python part should be like this:

# -*- coding: UTF-8

import os
def generate_random_utf8_string(length=8):
    random_string = os.urandom(length)

    return unicode(random_string, encoding='UTF-8')