Hi there, let's create a Password Generator Python Project which is super quick & super fun!
How do Password Generators work?
Password Generators are nothing but simple programs which are capable of randomly creating strings which consist of alphabets, numbers & symbols.
The Password Generator we are gonna make will take the length of the password as an input and will generate a random password of the same size.
Here's an example:
Input:
Enter the length of the password: 7
Output:
5:$v9<,
So here, when we ran the code we were asked for the size of the password to be generated. We entered the 7
as the input. And we got a random 7-digit password as output.
You can also see that our password consists of numbers, alphabets & symbols which are highly recommended to be used in a password to make it stronger and difficult to guess & brute force.
Alright now since you know how our password generator is going to work, now let's get into coding.
Let's Code
Alright, so the very first thing we do is to import required modules for the project. In this case, since we need to create random strings as mentioned before, we are going to make use of random
module. So let's quickly import it.
import random
Now let's get the input for the length of the password to be generated.
pass_len = int(input("Enter the length of the password: "))
Here we go! We are going to store the input in **pass_len**
variable. Also notice that we are making use of int()
function. That's because the input we get from the user will be in string
datatype but to make use of this input we first need to convert it into an int
datatype. int()
will convert our input from string
to int
.
Now let's move to the next step.
pass_data = "qwertyuiopasdfgjklzxcvbnm1234567890[];',./!@#$%^&*()_+:<>?"
Here we have simply defined a string which consists of all the alphabets, numbers & symbols which will be used to generate the password. You can customize this variable as per your wish. If you want to create a password consisting only of alphabets then you can get rid of symbols and numbers from this variable and the resulting password will be consisting only of alphabets.
Let's Finish it!!!
password = "".join(random.sample(pass_data, pass_len))
Here on this final step, we have used join()
function which will join our generated password to an empty string on the left.
Within join()
, we have random.sample()
function which does the main job of generating a password.
random.sample()
takes in our pass_data
variable which consists of our raw password characters and the pass_len
variable which is the user input from the user regarding the length of the password. Basically what it will do is that it will take random characters from pass_data
variable of length pass_len
.
Now finally let's print out the final output!
print(password)
Source Code
You can find the complete source code of this project here -
mindninjaX/Python-Projects-for-Beginners
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Top comments (6)
You might want to change the guts of how the password is generated.
From the python docs:
Hello Robert!
We are mainly focused on creating a simple project for beginners to help them fluent in programming & become more familiar with basic problem-solving skills. This project may not be used in a real-life scenario and may only be applied as a training project.
I understand that, but way too often code from these projects end up in production, or people come away with the idea "random" is good enough.
And considering the change is just changing
random.sample
tosecrets.choice
, it's easy enough to start people with good habits.You are right Robert! I will write to my editor and ask him to make changes ASAP! Once again thanks for your suggestion!
People like you help us refine our code and help the community!
Have a great day Robert!
Good job on the script. Are there any plans to include options such as ambiguous character exclusion?
No, our projects are mainly for beginners so we don't have any plans for adding new functionality to keep it simple.
But thanks for the suggestion, Stephen. I will talk about this with our editor.