Simple Password Generator using Python

Passwords are very essential things right. Choosing a password for accounts are sometimes becomes boring. So, let’s solve this problem in a pythonic way. Let’s create our own password generator using python.

Goal

We need a secure password right. So, our password contains Digit, Lower and Uppercase alphabets, Symbols. So, first we ask users how much your password long.

Installation

We use these two models, string and random. In case not installed then copy this following command and paste in your terminal/CMD to install.

pip install strings

pip install random

Coding

import both modules.

import string
import random

Now, get a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and symbols using string functions provided by string module inbuilt.

s1 = string.ascii_lowercase
s2 = string.ascii_uppercase
s3 = string.digits
s4 = string.punctuation

now, ask user to get password length

plen = int(input("Enter password length: "))

Now, we make list of character we get using string function.

s = []
s.extend(list(s1))
s.extend(list(s2))
s.extend(list(s3))
s.extend(list(s4))

Here, we convert s1,s2,s3, and s4 in list type because above string functions like string.ascii_lowercase return a string. And extend() is used to concrete list. This list looks like this.

['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P', 'Q', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '!', '"', '#', '$', '%', '&', "'", '(', ')', '*', '+', ',', '-', '.', '/', ':', ';', '<', '=', '>', '?', '@', '[', '\\', ']', '^', '_', '`', '{', '|', '}', '~']

So, we get all character in one list. We use this list to get our password. For that we use sample() function to get random character of given length.

sample() is an inbuilt function of a random module in Python that returns a particular length list of items chosen from the sequence i.e. list, tuple, string, or set. Used for random sampling without replacement.

At last, join all character in a list into a string, using a “” character as separator.

print("".join(random.sample(s, plen)))

Final Code

import string
import random

if __name__ == "__main__":
    s1 = string.ascii_lowercase
    s2 = string.ascii_uppercase
    s3 = string.digits
    s4 = string.punctuation

    plen = int(input("Enter password length: "))
    s = []
    s.extend(list(s1))
    s.extend(list(s2))
    s.extend(list(s3))
    s.extend(list(s4))

    print("Your password: ", end="")
    print("".join(random.sample(s, plen)))

Output

Enter password length: 8
Your password: lrOuGH3^

There are endless possibilities to make this code better. You can add a minimum length password in 8 characters or You can also exclude some character from the symbol list. Endless possibilities right. So this a simple password generator using python.

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