Thanks to all for your help.
Now I was able to login into my account.
Downside is that now bills should be paid :(
>>Hi Valery,
>
>I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. Are you trying to debug
>their regex so they can fix it? Are you trying to make your own regex
>to produce valid passwords you can submit to them? You said:
Nothing of the sort - I was just wanting to be able to log into my account.
Valery
>>
>================================================
>Mybills claims that password should be 8-10 characters long and
>should include at least two digits and Latin letters.
>================================================
>
>Are you saying that all characters should be Latin, or only some of
>them? Should everything that's not be a digit be [A-Z,a-z]?
>
>Anyway, in my opinion regex is an abysmal way to solve this. Like bash
>one-liners and SQL, regex is great for writing a very short solution.
>Like bash one-liners and SQL, using it for stuff it wasn't intended to
>be used for takes more time than just writing out the code.
>
>So I'd do it more like this:
>
>=======================================================
>#!/usr/bin/python3
>
>MAXLEN=10
>MINLEN=8
>MINDIGITS=2
>
>import sys
>import string
>
>def isascii(ltr):
> asc='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
> return(len(asc.split(ltr, 2)) == 2)
>
>
>def main():
> groups={'digits': 0, 'letters': 0}
> candidate = sys.argv[1]
> if len(candidate) > MAXLEN or len(candidate) < MINLEN:
> msg='BADPASS, password length must be {} to {}.'
> msg=msg.format(MINLEN, MAXLEN)
> print(msg)
> sys.exit(1)
>
> max = len(candidate)
> for ss in range(0, len(candidate)):
> ltr = candidate[ss]
> if ltr.isdigit():
> groups['digits'] += 1
> elif isascii(ltr):
> groups['letters'] += 1
> else:
> msg='BADPASS: Bad password character "{}", '
> msg+='only 0-9, A-Z, a-z allowed.'
> msg = msg.format(ltr)
> print(msg)
> sys.exit(1)
> if groups['digits'] < MINDIGITS:
> msg='BADPASS, password must contain at least '
> msg+='{} digits.'
> msg=msg.format(MINDIGITS)
> print(msg)
> sys.exit(1)
> if groups['digits'] + groups['letters'] != len(candidate):
> msg='INTERNAL ERROR, letters and digits don\'t add '
> msg+='up to password length: Contact developer!'
> print(msg)
> sys.exit(1)
> print('Password passes with flying colors.')
> sys.exit(0)
>
>
>if __name__ == "__main__":
> main()
>=======================================================
>
>
>
>
>
>================================================
>
>
>
>--
>SteveT
>
>Steve Litt
>February 2016 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence
>http://www.troubleshooters.com/key
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