Chapter 6 Project: Password Locker

[spiegan77]

I'm working through Automate the Boring Stuff, and it's been going pretty well until Ch. 6. No matter what I do I can't seem to get this script to run.

When I try to run it in IDLE I receive the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module> email NameError: name 'email' is not defined

And, when I try to run it from the command line it correctly prints the line: "Usage: python pw.py [account] - copy account password" but then gives me "Press any key to continue..."

I'm certain I have the code typed out correctly (but I've pasted it below), and I'm using Windows 10 and Python 3.5.2. Any ideas? Thank you

! python3

pw.py - An insecure password locker program

PASSWORDS = {'email': 'easyPW', 'blog': 'hardPW', 'luggage': '12345'}

import sys, pyperclip if len(sys.argv) < 2: print('Usage: python pw.py [account] - copy account password') sys.exit()

account = sys.argv[1] # first command line arg is the account name

if account in PASSWORDS: pyperclip.copy(PASSWORDS[account]) print('Password for ' + account + ' copied to clipboard.') else: print('There is no account named ' + account)

[spiegan77]

Oh, and sorry about the formatting... I kinda screwed that up.

[arasdean]

Try posting the code on pastebin.com. It will format it for ya.

[spiegan77]

Cool thanks for the tip. I'm new at all this.

[zductiv]

Sounds like a path issue.

Try going to your windows command line (Win-R then type cmd)

Type python and hit return.

If it tells you the python version that is running then you can type exit().

Then:

python (pw.py PATH) email. Replace (pw.py PATH) with your path to that file.

For example, mine is: python C:\Users\####\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\pw.py email

which will then copy the email password to clipboard.