I've included the whole problem statement and the code used. As I tried two alternative formulations of the char_list structure both have been included and commented out; the problem persisted in both cases.
Why doesn't ' '.join()
clean out the spaces?
'''Write a password generator in Python. Be creative with how you generate passwords - strong passwords have a mix of lowercase letters, uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols. The passwords should be random, generating a new password every time the user asks for a new password. Include your run-time code in a main method.'''
import random
def password_generator():
#char_str = '1234567890abcdefgh!@#$%(^)%($('
#char_str = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', '1', '2', '3', '4']
password = []
length = int(input("How long should the password be?"))
while len(password) < length:
password.append(char_str[random.randint(0, len(char_str) - 1)])
return(' '.join(password))
print(password_generator())
Example output: % ) 0 4 d c f b % 7
You are joining each character by a literal space, which is why there are spaces between each character. To solve this you could join on an empty string:
Or alternatively you could just build a string instead of a list: