From a449518ed410407e9bebefcf45efca50a880d722 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bnyro <bnyro@tutanota.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:11:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [mod] engines: replace [random.choice(...) for ... in
 range(..)] with random.choices

---
 searx/answerers/random.py  | 2 +-
 searx/autocomplete.py      | 2 +-
 searx/engines/500px.py     | 2 +-
 searx/engines/bilibili.py  | 2 +-
 searx/engines/swisscows.py | 2 +-
 tests/unit/test_utils.py   | 2 +-
 6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/searx/answerers/random.py b/searx/answerers/random.py
index 44b94a0e2..4f7ed515f 100644
--- a/searx/answerers/random.py
+++ b/searx/answerers/random.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from . import Answerer, AnswererInfo
 
 def random_characters():
     random_string_letters = string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits + string.ascii_uppercase
-    return [random.choice(random_string_letters) for _ in range(random.randint(8, 32))]
+    return random.choices(random_string_letters, k=random.randint(8, 32))
 
 
 def random_string():
diff --git a/searx/autocomplete.py b/searx/autocomplete.py
index 9e0c0d84f..2063aec7b 100644
--- a/searx/autocomplete.py
+++ b/searx/autocomplete.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ def bing(query: str, _sxng_locale: str) -> list[str]:
     # bing search autocompleter
     base_url = "https://www.bing.com/AS/Suggestions?"
     # cvid has to be a 32 character long string consisting of numbers and uppsercase characters
-    cvid = ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits) for _ in range(32))
+    cvid = ''.join(random.choices(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits, k=32))
     response = get(base_url + urlencode({'qry': query, 'csr': 1, 'cvid': cvid}))
     results: list[str] = []
 
diff --git a/searx/engines/500px.py b/searx/engines/500px.py
index 99596c144..583995948 100644
--- a/searx/engines/500px.py
+++ b/searx/engines/500px.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ fragment SXNG_query on Query {
 
 def setup(_) -> bool:
     global SXNG_query  # pylint: disable=global-statement
-    rand_str: str = "".join(random.choice(string.ascii_letters) for _ in range(5))
+    rand_str: str = "".join(random.choices(string.ascii_letters, k=5))
     SXNG_query = SXNG_query.replace("SXNG_query", "PhotoSearchPaginationContainer_query_1" + rand_str)
     return True
 
diff --git a/searx/engines/bilibili.py b/searx/engines/bilibili.py
index 9168bf733..dbd7c6bea 100644
--- a/searx/engines/bilibili.py
+++ b/searx/engines/bilibili.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ base_url = "https://api.bilibili.com/x/web-interface/search/type"
 
 cookie = {
     "innersign": "0",
-    "buvid3": "".join(random.choice(string.hexdigits) for _ in range(16)) + "infoc",
+    "buvid3": "".join(random.choices(string.hexdigits, k=16)) + "infoc",
     "i-wanna-go-back": "-1",
     "b_ut": "7",
     "FEED_LIVE_VERSION": "V8",
diff --git a/searx/engines/swisscows.py b/searx/engines/swisscows.py
index 68f1d0bb5..ae10b065b 100644
--- a/searx/engines/swisscows.py
+++ b/searx/engines/swisscows.py
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def generate_nonce(length: int = 32) -> str:
     """
     Generate a random char sequence with the given length.
     """
-    return "".join([random.choice(NONCE_ALPHABET) for _ in range(length)])
+    return "".join(random.choices(NONCE_ALPHABET, k=length))
 
 
 def caesar_shift_with_switch_case(s: str, offset: int = 13) -> str:
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_utils.py b/tests/unit/test_utils.py
index 271ec629b..fc30ac33a 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_utils.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from tests import SearxTestCase
 
 
 def random_string(length, choices=string.ascii_letters):
-    return ''.join(random.choice(choices) for _ in range(length))
+    return ''.join(random.choices(choices, k=length))
 
 
 class TestUtils(SearxTestCase):