On Saturday, 13 July 2013 17:28:50 UTC+10, Peter Otten wrote:
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> Every time when you have to look up something you should think 'dict', and I
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> expect that pretty that will happen automatically.
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> Also, to split a tuple into its items you can "unpack" it:
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> triple = (1, 2, 3)
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> one, two, three = triple
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> assert one == 1 and two == 2 and three == 3
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> So:
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> supported_hashes = {
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> "crypt": (2, "", 13),
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> "md5": (8, "$1$", 22),
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> ...
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> }
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> ...
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> parser.add_argument(
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> '--hash', default='sha512',
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> choices=supported_hashes, # accept the keys
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> help='Which Hash function to use')
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> ...
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> salt_length, hash_type, expected_password_length = supported_hashes[args.hash]
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> ...
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the pointers I will try your suggestion out and read some more.
Peter.
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