A password generator that will generate random length alpha-numeric passwords given a range to work with.
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Copy to clipboard1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | import string
import whrandom
def generatePassword(minlen=5, maxlen=10):
chars = string.letters + string.digits
passwd = ""
# determine password size (randomly, but between the given range)
passwd_size = whrandom.randint(minlen, maxlen)
for x in range(passwd_size):
# choose a random alpha-numeric character
passwd += whrandom.choice(chars)
return passwd
print generatePassword()
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Password generation is useful in many cases. The only way I could imagine improving this is by somehow ensuring that the password generated is secure. This would involve checking to make sure the password contains both letters and numbers and that it contains both upper case and lower case letters. That would be nice, but its not important for most situations.
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