Code golf challenge: XKCD 936 passwords

sprucebondera at gmail.com sprucebondera at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 02:45:39 EDT 2013


On Monday, October 7, 2013 8:17:21 PM UTC-10, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Who's up for some fun? Implement an XKCD-936-compliant password
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> generator in Python 3, in less code than this:
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> print(*__import__("random").sample(open("/usr/share/dict/words").read().split("\n"),4))
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> Second challenge: Use it for generating all your passwords :)
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> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf
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> [2] http://xkcd.com/936/
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> ChrisA

Well, here's a start: 

import random as r
print(*r.sample(open("/usr/share/dict/words").readlines(),4)) 

Shaves off 6 characters.

 



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