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Re: Template language for random string generation

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One suggestion, though perhaps nothing actually needs changing.

I occasionally run into sites which define their password constraints as
something like "minimum 8 characters, at least one number, one uppercase
letter, and one special character." Their notion of "special" (which in my
mind means any printable character which isn't a letter, whitespace, or
digit) is only a subset.  You include a "/" or a ";" and they kick your
nice random password back at you, sometimes without telling you what you
actually did wrong, only repeating, "minimum 8 characters, at least one
number and one special character." You are left to discover through
trial-and-error which "special" characters are actually allowed. Once you
figure that out, I suppose you could use something like "[.-,()&@]" or
whatever is actually allowed, but it would be nice if perhaps there was a
way to figure out what some of these sites actually mean by "special"
characters and define a \-escape which represents the lowest common
denominator set of "special" characters.

Definitely a small point though.

Skip

P.S. Probably a topic for a separate thread, and not actually
Python-related, but on a related note, I have never found a free password
keeper which works on all my platforms (Mac, Android, Unix). That is one
stumbling block (for me) to actually using extremely strong passwords. If
you have some thoughts, please contact me off-list.

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Template language for random string generation Paul Wolf <paulwolf333@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 02:01 -0700
  Re: Template language for random string generation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 19:22 +1000
    Re: Template language for random string generation Paul Wolf <paulwolf333@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 02:42 -0700
      Re: Template language for random string generation Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-08-08 07:20 -0400
        Re: Template language for random string generation Paul Wolf <paulwolf333@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 06:02 -0700
      Re: Template language for random string generation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 21:29 +1000
        Re: Template language for random string generation Paul Wolf <paulwolf333@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 06:03 -0700
  Re: Template language for random string generation Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-09 00:08 +1000
  Re: Template language for random string generation Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-08-08 09:35 -0500
    Re: Template language for random string generation cwolf.algo@gmail.com - 2014-08-08 11:43 -0700
      Re: Template language for random string generation Nick Cash <nick.cash@npcinternational.com> - 2014-08-08 20:28 +0000
  Re: Template language for random string generation Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 16:03 -0600
    Re: Template language for random string generation Paul Wolf <paulwolf333@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 23:52 -0700
      Re: Template language for random string generation Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-09 01:49 -0600
      Re: Template language for random string generation Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-09 01:57 -0600
  Re: Template language for random string generation Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-08-10 05:43 -0700
    Re: Template language for random string generation Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-11 02:31 +1000
      Re: Template language for random string generation Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-08-10 11:28 -0700
        Re: Template language for random string generation Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-11 12:22 +1000
          Re: Template language for random string generation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-11 12:31 +1000
          Re: Template language for random string generation Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-08-11 00:01 -0700
      Re: Template language for random string generation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-11 05:25 +1000
      Re: Template language for random string generation Paul Wolf <paulwolf333@gmail.com> - 2014-08-10 22:06 -0700
        Re: Template language for random string generation Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-11 08:58 +0100
    Re: Template language for random string generation Paul Wolf <paulwolf333@gmail.com> - 2014-08-10 09:34 -0700
      Re: Template language for random string generation Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-10 10:47 -0600
        Re: Template language for random string generation Paul Wolf <paulwolf333@gmail.com> - 2014-08-10 21:56 -0700
      Re: Template language for random string generation Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-08-10 11:48 -0700
  Re: Template language for random string generation Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-10 10:38 -0600

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