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organized imports to pep8 standard
petervislocky Dec 14, 2025
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removed common illegal chars for pswds and replaced random with secrets
petervislocky Dec 14, 2025
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10 changes: 6 additions & 4 deletions password_generator.py
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import random
import string
import argparse
import secrets
import string


def generate_password(length, use_upper, use_lower, use_digits, use_symbols):
characters = ''
illegal_chars = "\"\';{}[]()|\\<>:,"
if use_upper:
characters += string.ascii_uppercase
if use_lower:
characters += string.ascii_lowercase
if use_digits:
characters += string.digits
if use_symbols:
characters += string.punctuation
characters += ''.join(i for i in string.punctuation if i not in illegal_chars)

if not characters:
raise ValueError("At least one character type must be selected.")

password = ''.join(random.choice(characters) for _ in range(length))
password = ''.join(secrets.choice(characters) for _ in range(length))
return password

def save_password(password):
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