generate random password

import random

LOWERCASE_CHARS = tuple(map(chr, xrange(ord('a'), ord('z')+1)))
UPPERCASE_CHARS = tuple(map(chr, xrange(ord('A'), ord('Z')+1)))
DIGITS = tuple(map(str, range(0, 10)))
SPECIALS = ('!', '@', '#', '$', '%', '^', '&', '*')

SEQUENCE = (LOWERCASE_CHARS,
            UPPERCASE_CHARS,
            DIGITS,
            SPECIALS,
            )

def generate_random_password(total, sequences):
    r = _generate_random_number_for_each_sequence(total, len(sequences))

password = []
    for (population, k) in zip(sequences, r):
        n = 0
        while n < k:
            position = random.randint(0, len(population)-1)
            password += population[position]
            n += 1
    random.shuffle(password)
    
    while _is_repeating(password):
        random.shuffle(password)
        
    return ''.join(password)

def _generate_random_number_for_each_sequence(total, sequence_number):
    """ Generate random sequence with numbers (greater than 0).
        The number of items equals to 'sequence_number' and
        the total number of items equals to 'total'
    """
    current_total = 0
    r = []
    for n in range(sequence_number-1, 0, -1):
        current = random.randint(1, total - current_total - n)
        current_total += current
        r.append(current)
    r.append(total - sum(r))
    random.shuffle(r)

return r

def _is_repeating(password):
    """ Check if there is any 2 characters repeating consecutively """
    n = 1
    while n < len(password):
        if password[n] == password[n-1]:
            return True
        n += 1
    return False

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print generate_random_password(random.randint(6, 30), SEQUENCE)

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