Recently, I was solving a problem that involved disjoint ranges. And while stress testing my solution I found a simple trick to fairly and efficiently generate such ranges.
Let us first examine a set of $$$N = 3$$$ disjoint ranges: [{2,3}, {6, 7}, {4, 5}]
. If we list their endpoints in order, we get a sequence of $$$2 \times N$$$ integers, where adjacent integers are paired together to form a range: [2,3, 4,5, 6,7]
It follows from this observation that you can generate N disjoint ranges by first generating $$$2 \times N$$$ unique integers (duplicates will affect the disjoint condition), and then "matching" adjacent integers together.
Here is some Python code:
As an additional advantage, the output is sorted.