Learn Regular Expressions by Building a Password Generator - Step 72

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1

Last step of the project. Code does not pass check.
I’m adding:
if name == ‘main’:
main()
just as the prompt says too.
I also tried:
def main():
new_password = generate_password()
print(‘Generated password:’, new_password)
and then added the if name == ‘main’: main().
Worked in my jupyter notebook but not here.
Previous projects ended just like this but I cannot seem to figure out what is missing/incorrect.

Thanks in advance!

Your code so far

import re
import secrets
import string


def generate_password(length=16, nums=1, special_chars=1, uppercase=1, lowercase=1):

    # 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
    

/* User Editable Region */

new_password = generate_password()
print('Generated password:', new_password)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

/* User Editable Region */

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Learn Regular Expressions by Building a Password Generator - Step 72

2

Hello pcdude,

So your if statement is correct. But you are supposed to add the last 2 lines that were already there in the if statement body, not a main() call.

3

You should put the last two lines of code inside the if statement. You don’t have a main function here.

4

Thank you both for your help.