On Friday, August 8, 2014 10:35:12 AM UTC-4, Skip Montanaro wrote: > One suggestion, though perhaps nothing actually needs changing. > > > I occasionally run into sites which define their password constraints as > something like "minimum 8 characters, at least one number, one uppercase > letter, and one special character." Their notion of "special" (which in my > mind means any printable character which isn't a letter, whitespace, or > digit) is only a subset. You include a "/" or a ";" and they kick your nice > random password back at you, sometimes without telling you what you actually > did wrong, only repeating, "minimum 8 characters, at least one number and one > special character." You are left to discover through trial-and-error which > "special" characters are actually allowed. Once you figure that out, I > suppose you could use something like "[.-,()&@]" or whatever is actually > allowed, but it would be nice if perhaps there was a way to figure out what > some of these sites actually mean by "special" characters and define a > \-escape which represents the lowest common denominator set of "special" > characters. > > > > Definitely a small point though. > > > Skip > > > > P.S. Probably a topic for a separate thread, and not actually Python-related, > but on a related note, I have never found a free password keeper which works > on all my platforms (Mac, Android, Unix). That is one stumbling block (for > me) to actually using extremely strong passwords. If you have some thoughts, > please contact me off-list.
Skip - try "lastpass.com" it's cross platform, include Win, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list