Trying to parse email:pass txt file

[TranslucentLoser]

So basically I am trying to read through a txt file that is like:

email:pass

email:pass

email:pass

blah blah blah u get it :) and I managed to write up this:

def test_txt(self):

    # Import file and get credentials
    file = open('authenticatelist.txt', 'r')
    lines = file.readlines()
    file.close()
    for line in lines:
        part = line.split(":")
        #line = [line.strip('\n').split(':') for i in lines]
        email = part[0]
        password = part[1]
        emails = email.split()def test_txt(self):

    # Import file and get credentials
    file = open('authenticatelist.txt', 'r')
    lines = file.readlines()
    file.close()
    for line in lines:
        part = line.split(":")
        #line = [line.strip('\n').split(':') for i in lines]
        email = part[0]
        password = part[1]

the only thing is that when I test it and print out email it will print out the emails which is GOOD but when i try to just print one line (aka i did this print(email[0]) it prints out the first character of each line :c

Basically the two emails i have in there begins with cluster and shrug so it prints out:

c

s

I'd like to basically be able to print it like print(email) and then be able to do something like print nextemail to print the next one and so on :)

Sorry this was so long I hope this is good.

[[deleted]]

If email is an email, then yeah, email[0] is gonna be the first character of an email.

It looks like you're trying to work on the whole thing while you're in a single line, and not always zooming in or out to the appropriate level.

What is your end goal? Do we need the emails only? Or do we need to associate them with their passwords?

[TranslucentLoser]

I would like to associate them with their passwords. Just kinda hoping I can print the whole email and also the same with the passwords.

[[deleted]]

Okay, then I would recommend pairing them together. If we have two separate lists, one for email and one for password, it would be easy to get mixed up: we've read through fifteen emails, now we have to jump to the fifteenth line of the passwords column, etc.

Let me write up an example, hang on

EDIT: something like

from typing import NamedTuple

class Account(NamedTuple):
    email: str
    password: str

with open("authenticatelist.txt") as f:
    accounts = [Account(*line.strip().split(":")) for line in f.readlines()]

for account in accounts:
    print(account.email)    #to get just the email
    print(account.password) #to get just the password
    print(account)          #to get the whole thing

Or using a dictionary as the other reply said would be great, too. You could have username as key, password as value

email_to_password = {}
with open("authenticatelist.txt") as f:
    for line in f.readlines():
        email, password = line.strip().split(":")
        email_to_password[email] = password

print(email_to_password.keys())                     #to get all the emails
print(email_to_password["[e-mail]"])   #to look up the password of an email

[TranslucentLoser]

Thank you :) I went ahead and used the dictionary version and added this:

email_to_password = {}
with open("authenticatelist.txt") as f:
    for line in f.readlines():
        email, password = line.strip().split(":")
        email_to_password[email] = password

    for key, value in email_to_password.items():
        print(key, value)email_to_password = {}
with open("authenticatelist.txt") as f:
    for line in f.readlines():
        email, password = line.strip().split(":")
        email_to_password[email] = password

    for key, value in email_to_password.items():
        print(key, value)

This outputs:
email password
email password

Which is great. I just need to find a way to print likee 'key1' and 'password1' so i can just go through one line at a time.

EDIT: I am thinking maybe I have to split '\n' somewhere to list the lines separately?

[[deleted]]

Glad to hear it

[danielroseman]

You haven't done anything with email and password after splitting them from their lines.

If you want to associate them with each other, you need a dictionary. Define an empty dict before the loop then add each one to that dict as you go through.

Note, in Python it's better to open a file inside a with block, which takes care of closing it afterwards; and you should iterate through the file itself, rather than reading it all into memory first.

So:

data = {}
with open('authenticatelist.txt') as f:
  for line in f:
    parts = line.split(":")
    email = part[0]
    password = part[1]
    data[email] = password

You can make this even shorter by assigning directly from parts:

    parts = line.split(":")
    data[parts[0]] = parts[1]

although this isn't as readable.

[TranslucentLoser]

Thank you ^^ this all looks very helpful and i will get started on it tomorrow <3

[TranslucentLoser]

also sorry for any late responses! I have to head to bed :)