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Secrets in Python

Published on November 8, 2022
Tagged with python

Use the secrets module to generate cryptographically strong random passwords containing letters, numbers, and punctuation.

import string
import secrets

n = 20
chars = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + string.punctuation
password = ''.join(secrets.choice(chars) for _ in range(n))

print('password', password)

The code example shown above produces a 20-character password such as:

password ^sNw3?-!rF9U{O$J=2cW

or something like

password PU^1g\q6I(`lf4qz5]N[