Generate random UTF-8 string in Python

Question

I\'d like to test the Unicode handling of my code. Is there anything I can put in random.choice() to select from the entire Unicode range, preferably not an external module?

Answer 1

Follows a code that print any printable character of UTF-8:

print(''.join(tuple(chr(i) for i in range(32, 0x110000) if chr(i).isprintable())))

All printable characters are included above, even those that are not printed by the current font. The clause and not chr(i).isspace() can be added to filter out whitespace characters.

Answer 2

Since Unicode is just a range of - well - codes, what about using unichr() to get the unicode string corresponding to a random number between 0 and 0xFFFF?
(Of course that would give just one codepoint, so iterate as required)