I need help with python program. I don’t know how to make python change at least 1 lowercase letter to uppercase.
from random import *
import random
pin=""
lenght=random.randrange(8,15)
for i in range(lenght):
pin=pin+chr(randint(97,122))
print(pin)
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Answer
You want a password with at least one uppercase letter but it shouldn’t be every character. First get length random lowercase letters. Then get some random indexes (min. 1, max. length-1) that should be transposed to uppercase.
import random import string # randomize length of password length = random.randrange(8, 15) # create a list of random lowercase letters characters = [random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase) for _ in range(length)] # select the indexes that will be changed to uppercase characters index_upper = random.sample(range(0, length), random.randrange(1, length)) # construct the final pin pin = ''.join(c.upper() if i in index_upper else c for i, c in enumerate(characters))
You can check what’s going on if you print the variables
print(length) print(characters) print(index_upper) print(pin)
Example output:
13 ['y', 'g', 'u', 'k', 't', 'a', 'w', 'a', 'g', 'f', 'f', 'x', 'p'] [2, 7, 4, 0, 5, 6, 1] YGUkTAWAgffxp
If you’re not familiar with the generator syntax where pin is build, it roughly translates to:
pin = ''
for i, c in enumerate(characters):
if i in index_upper:
pin += c.upper()
else:
pin += c