I've got a small function that I'm using to check whether a password is
of a certain length and contains mixed case, numbers and punctuation.
Originally I was using multiple "if re.search" for the patterns but it
looked terrible so I've read up on list comprehensions and it's slightly
improved. I just can't escape the feeling that there's a more elegant
way to do this that I'm missing.
I've been looking through all the python stuff that I thought might be
relevant (lambda, map, filter, set, frozenset, etc) but nothing has come
together. Just wondering if anyone has suggested reading material for
alternate ways they'd handle this code.
CODE:
from string import ascii_lowercase, ascii_uppercase, digits, punctuation
def complex_password(password):
"""Checks password for sufficient complexity."""
if len(password) < 12:
return False
if len([c for c in password if c in punctuation]) == 0:
return False
if len([c for c in password if c in digits]) == 0:
return False
if len([c for c in password if c in ascii_uppercase]) == 0:
return False
if len([c for c in password if c in ascii_lowercase]) == 0:
return False
return True
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