🔒 Password Generation Python

[lime solar]

I want to create a Password generation project in python. How can I do it. I have tried to code it but didn't work. Help me.

[tall reef]

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[heady lodge]

Make a list of the characters, and use a for loop and random.choice

[woven niche]

that is not how you generate a (secure) password

that technicallly works

but, you'd ideally use secrets

!d secrets look into this for generating passwords, as for "didn't work" what exactly didn't work?

[tall reef]

secrets

New in version 3.6.

Source code: Lib/secrets.py

The secrets module is used for generating cryptographically strong random numbers suitable for managing data such as passwords, account authentication, security tokens, and related secrets.

In particular, secrets should be used in preference to the default pseudo-random number generator in the random module, which is designed for modelling and simulation, not security or cryptography.

[heady lodge]

it for beginners, the simplest way

[woven niche]

secrets is not convuluted in any manner

you could even do secrets.choice as a drop in replacement (you shouldn't though, there's simpler and better ways)

[river oxide]

i think he wants to program it himself, for the fun of it and to practise and not just use a ready-made module, because then there is nothing left to program

[woven niche]

there's still a lot you can do to improve functionality rather than just chuck out a password, like a password manager cli/tui/gui

besides LOC won't differ much between random and secrets

[oak pulsar]

Let us say you wanted to generate a ten character password with at least one upper case letter, at least one lower case letter and at least three digits, then you could do it like this. This is just an example and you could adapt this easily to suit your particular requirements.

import string, secrets
alphabet = string.ascii_letters + string.digits
while True:
    password = ''.join(secrets.choice(alphabet) for i in range(10))
    if (    any(char.islower() for char in password) and
            any(char.isupper() for char in password) and
            sum(char.isdigit() for char in password) >= 3):
        break
print(password)

!e

import string, secrets
alphabet = string.ascii_letters + string.digits
while True:
    password = ''.join(secrets.choice(alphabet) for i in range(10))
    if (    any(char.islower() for char in password) and
            any(char.isupper() for char in password) and
            sum(char.isdigit() for char in password) >= 3):
        break
print(password)

[tall reef]

@oak pulsar :white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

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[lime solar]

Thanks

I need that

[tall reef]

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