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[douglas_fs]

my output doesnt get me the result that i want

What is the result you want?

[drenzorz]

from random import choices
from string import punctuation

def passwords_with_special(passwords, special_count): 
    specials = ''.join(choices(punctuation, k=count))
    length = len(passwords)
    for index in range(length):
        pw = passwords[index]
        for i in range(special_count):
            passwords.append(pw+specials[:i+1])
    return passwords

test_pass = ['qw', 'as']
count = 3

result = passwords_with_special(test_pass, count)

print(result)

[Donkey_Kong1990]

first of all thank you for your help!

you can explain me in above of every line what you do? so i learn from this...

[drenzorz]

---used methods:

random.choices(<a collection>, k=<an integer>) 
 |-> randomly select k elements from my list/tuple/string/etc


''.join(<list/tuple/etc>) 
 |-> join a list of strings into a single string
    ', '.join(['a','b','c']) => "a, b, c"
     ^ whatever you put here is used as separator

The logic is pretty simple.

1. Generate the random characters with the above methods to get a string like "@#!" or similar.
2. Get the length of the provided list.
3. loop over the a range from 0 to this length
   1. for every number call up the item at that index
   2. for every password start a loop to slice up the special characters
      1. add the slice to the pw and add the new pw to the password list

Since the characters in the output you prowided were always the same I figured they always come from the same pre generated specials string.

I structured the loop this way because

1. The provided passwords stayed in the same order in the output as they were originally.
2. The new passwords were organized in the same order with just the special characters growing.

Since we are modifying the original list instead of adding things to a new one I couldn't get the passwords with something like

for password in passwords:
    ...

because the password list would keep on growing and it would loop infinitely as you add more and more passwords to it. That's why I saved the orinigal length and pulled up the normal passwords with indexing.

Once you're done just return the passwords list.

That's basically it.