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author | Jeff Hammel <k0scist@gmail.com> |
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date | Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:23:50 -0700 |
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#!/usr/bin/env python """ password generator """ import argparse import random import string import sys def generate_password(population=string.ascii_letters+string.digits, length=12): """ returns a random password `length` characters long sampled from `population` """ return ''.join(random.sample(population, length)) def main(args=sys.argv[1:]): # parse command line parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__) parser.add_argument('-l', '--length', dest='length', type=int, default=12, help="length of password to generate [DEFAULT: %(default)s]") options = parser.parse_args(args) # print generated password print (generate_password(length=options.length)) if __name__ == '__main__': main()