Generate random UTF-8 string in Python

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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? Neither Google nor StackOverflow seems to have an answer.

Edit: It looks like this is more complex than expected, so I'll rephrase the question - Is the following code sufficient to generate all valid non-control characters in Unicode?

unicode_glyphs = ''.join(
    unichr(char)
    for char in xrange(1114112) # 0x10ffff + 1
    if unicodedata.category(unichr(char))[0] in ('LMNPSZ')
    )
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8 Answers

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.

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