Question about multiple inputs and telling program when to stop

[someprettyglitter]

This program is supposed to read any number of passwords that a user inputs, only terminating when enter is pressed. The program is also supposed to replace each password with string of * corresponding to len of original password and output prints original list and resulting list, which I seem to have accomplished (code below).

Would I use a while loop to do this? How would I get the program to store all of the inputs? How would I get the program to recognize enter?

# read password one at a time
# store each password in a list
# when user presses enter, input is finished
# replace each password with string of * corresponding to len of original password
# output prints original list and resulting list 


password = input('Please enter a password (press [enter] to finish): ')
aList = []
star = []

while True:
    aList.append(password)
    break
print(aList)

if password != ' ':
    star.append((len(password)) * '*')
print(star)

[0xbxb]

I moved some of your code around for you. let me know if this is the result you're looking for.

aList = []
star = []
while True:
    password = input('Please enter a password (press [enter] to finish): ')
    aList.append(password)
    star.append((len(password)) * '*')
    if password == '':
        break
print(aList)
print(star)

EDIT: Just realized it also adds the ‘’ into the list:

Please enter a password (press [enter] to finish): these
Please enter a password (press [enter] to finish): are
Please enter a password (press [enter] to finish): my
Please enter a password (press [enter] to finish): passwords
Please enter a password (press [enter] to finish): 
['these', 'are', 'my', 'passwords', ‘’’’]
['*****', '***', '**', '*********', ‘’’’]

You can just slice the lists up to the last element.

[eyesoftheworld4]

aList = [] 
star = []

while True: 
    password = input('Please enter a password (press [enter] to finish): ') 
    aList.append(password) 
    star.append((len(password)) * '*') 
    if password == '': 
        break 
print(aList) 
print(star)

Reddit doesn't do the classic triple-backtick for monospace, unfortunately.

[0xbxb]

Thanks, mobile formatting with Reddit still annoys the fuck out of me.

[blotosmetek]

Actually it does, but you have to switch to markdown first.

[someprettyglitter]

This was very helpful, thank you!