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Text file information retreval
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Hi,
Im making a password cracker 'proof of concept' were the program accesses a text file and compares the entered password to a list of common passwords before trying random combinations of alphabetical letters.
The problem I'm having is sometimes the program does not recognize a password in the text file.

Any suggestions?

from random import *


guess = ""
# guesses = []

NH = input("1 for normal or 2 for advanced?:\n")
password = input("password:\n")

normal = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v",
           "w", "x", "y", "z"]

advanced = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v",
           "w", "x", "y", "z", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R",
           "S", "T", "U", "V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "0"]

dictionary = open("pw_dictionary", "r")

print(1)
for entry in dictionary:
    print(2)
    if entry == password:
        print(3)
        guess = entry
dictionary.close()

if NH == "1":
        while guess != password:
            guess = ""
            for letter in password:
                guessletters = normal[randint(0, 25)]
                guess = str(guessletters) + str(guess)
                print(guess)
        print("Password cracked")
else:
    while guess != password:
        guess = ""
        for letter in password:
            guessletters = advanced[randint(0, 61)]
            guess = str(guessletters) + str(guess)
            print(guess)

if guess == password:
    dictionary = open("pw_dictionary", "a")
    dictionary.write("\n" + str(guess))
    dictionary.close()

    print("Password cracked")

P.S.
pw_dictionary is the name of the text file
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Messages In This Thread
Text file information retreval - by cel - Jun-01-2020, 10:50 PM
RE: Text file information retreval - by bowlofred - Jun-02-2020, 12:14 AM
RE: Text file information retreval - by cel - Jun-03-2020, 09:00 PM
RE: Text file information retreval - by Yoriz - Jun-03-2020, 09:24 PM
RE: Text file information retreval - by cel - Jun-04-2020, 02:21 AM

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