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Password Guesser Project
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I now get the error:
#while guess[len(guess)-1] <= AlphaNum[len(AlphaNum)-1]:
#IndexError: string index out of range
If I'm not mistaking, I looks like my program is trying to compare a one-char length guess string with a three-char length AlphaNum (such as 'a' with 'abc'). But that's not what what I'm trying to do. Currently, my guess string is only one char as I have declared it on line 9 of the code below, so guess[len(guess)-1] should just equal guess[0], and AlphaNum[len(AlphaNum)-1] should simply be referring to the last char in AlphaNum:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
#PasswordGuesser.py

AlphaNum = "abc"
guess = ""
guessMatches = False
password = "b"
guessLength = len(guess)
guessLength = 1 #start with a guess length of just one char

def iterateAlphaNum():
    i = 0
    while i < len(AlphaNum):
        guess[0] == AlphaNum[i]
        i += 1


#Master While Loop: while the last char of the guess string has not yet passed
#the last char in AlphaNum
while guess[len(guess)-1] <= AlphaNum[len(AlphaNum)-1]:
    guess[0] = iterateAlphaNum()
    print(guess)
    if guess == password:
        guessMatches = True
        print()
        print("Found the password! It's " + str(guess))
        break
Any ideas?
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Messages In This Thread
Password Guesser Project - by RedSkeleton007 - Oct-22-2017, 05:46 AM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by Lux - Oct-22-2017, 02:55 PM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by RedSkeleton007 - Oct-22-2017, 08:05 PM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by Lux - Oct-22-2017, 09:21 PM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by RedSkeleton007 - Oct-23-2017, 02:10 AM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by Lux - Oct-29-2017, 01:54 AM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by RedSkeleton007 - Nov-01-2017, 05:44 PM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by nilamo - Nov-01-2017, 06:41 PM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by RedSkeleton007 - Nov-13-2017, 03:53 AM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by metulburr - Nov-13-2017, 04:01 AM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by RedSkeleton007 - Nov-13-2017, 05:10 AM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by nilamo - Nov-19-2017, 04:43 PM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by RedSkeleton007 - Nov-20-2017, 07:03 AM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by RedSkeleton007 - Nov-27-2017, 05:33 AM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by nilamo - Nov-27-2017, 06:42 PM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by RedSkeleton007 - Nov-28-2017, 08:58 PM
RE: Password Guesser Project - by nilamo - Nov-29-2017, 07:24 AM

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