Learn Regular Expressions by Building a Password Generator - Step 66

Python
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Already figured out the solution but I got confused about the direction prompt mentioning “spam” as the example function’s call. Would I be able to get some clarification of what the “spam” call out is supposed to represent? Here’s the example given that I was confused by:

def add(x, y):
    return x + y

spam(x=1, y=7) # 8

Your code so far

import re
import secrets
import string


def generate_password(length, nums, special_chars, uppercase, lowercase):
   
    # Define the possible characters for the password
    letters = string.ascii_letters
    digits = string.digits
    symbols = string.punctuation

    # Combine all characters
    all_characters = letters + digits + symbols

    while True:
        password = ''
        # Generate password
        for _ in range(length):
            password += secrets.choice(all_characters)
        
        constraints = [
            (nums, r'\d'),
            (special_chars, fr'[{symbols}]'),
            (uppercase, r'[A-Z]'),
            (lowercase, r'[a-z]')
        ]

        # Check constraints        
        if all(
            constraint <= len(re.findall(pattern, password))
            for constraint, pattern in constraints
        ):
            break
    
    return password
    

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new_password = generate_password(8, 1, 1, 1, 1)
print(new_password)

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Learn Regular Expressions by Building a Password Generator - Step 66

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Seems like a typo…

I can say that the variable spam is often used in Python examples, but here looks like it should be referring to the add() function

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That makes more sense, thank you for clarifying and sharing your impression of it.

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