[Daily Challenge #4 - Easy] - Password Generator - r/DailyProgrammer

Challenge_4_easy.py

# ***** Daily Challenge #4 - Easy *****

# You're challenge for today is to create a random password generator!
# For extra credit, allow the user to specify the amount of passwords to generate.
# For even more extra credit, allow the user to specify the length of the strings he wants to generate!

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
from random import sample


def password_generator(pw_length, pw_number):
    """Creates x amount of passwords with y amount of length.

    Args:
        pw_length (int): Length of passwords to be printed.
        pw_number (int): Number of passwords to be printed.

    Return:
        list: A list containing x amount of passwords with y length.

    """
    characters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890!@#$%^&*()"
    output = []

    try:
        pw_length = int(pw_length)
        pw_number = int(pw_number)
        while pw_number > 0:
            for _ in characters:
                password = sample(characters, k=pw_length)
                output.append("\nPassword #%s: " % pw_number + ''.join(password))
                break
            pw_number -= 1
    except ValueError:
        print("ERROR: Input not valid. Try again.\n")
        main()

    return output


def main():
    length = input("Length of password: ")
    number = input("Number of Passwords to generate: ")
    generator = password_generator(length, number)
    for pw in generator:
        print(pw)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

[Daily Challenge #4 - Easy] from the DailyProgrammer subreddit. Password Generator.

Reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/pm6oj/2122012_challenge_4_easy/