Hi @skillstackblue , are you still solving these tutorials? I want to know, why did you choose to iterate over the database instead of getting the keys into a list and then iterating over that.
Question:
Am I not understanding how db.prefix() works correctly? I’m getting no matches on line 55, even when the date is entered correctly.
Repl link:
https://replit.com/@KurtHoernig/Day62100Days#main.py
year = input('Year? > ')
month = input('Month? > ')
day = input('Day? > ')
date = (f'{year}-{month}-{day}')
print(f'Searching for: {date}')
time.sleep(1)
matches = db.prefix(date)
I checked David’s code for the answer, but he doesn’t do the extra credit part unfortunately.
Thanks @KurtHoernig , great spot. I’ll make sure this feedback is passed on so an update can be made.
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Hi, hope this code can help you a lil.
from replit import db
import datetime,os,time
def add():
add = input("Input your thought > ")
timestamp = datetime.datetime.now()
db[timestamp]= add
time.sleep(1)
os.system("clear")
menu()
def view():
keys = db.keys()
for key in keys:
time.sleep(1)
os.system("clear")
print(f"{key}: {db[key]}")
print()
ask = input("Next/Exit > ").capitalize()
if ask=='Next':
os.system("clear")
elif ask=='Exit':
os.system("clear")
menu()
break
def menu():
print("~Welcome To Secret Place Of Thoughts~")
print()
print("""1. Add
2. View""")
print()
enter = input("> ")
if enter=='1':
add()
elif enter=='2':
view()
while True:
pw = input("Please enter your password > ")
if pw=="banana139":
os.system("clear")
menu()
else:
print("WHO ARE YOU?! GET OUT! YOU AREN'T AN OWNER!")
exit()
I’m trying to hide the user’s password as they are entering it, but not entirely like with from getpass import getpass as input but rather for each key stroke an asterisk will appear :
password : abcdef -> ******
(enters) (shows)
I tried importing various libraries like getpass and mscvrt
then Replit ai generated this for me :
and the password = entry.get() part here:
"1
Which gives me this :
Cool I like this, I almost understand how it’s working but not entirely.
It works and I like how this works here is the whole thing :
from replit import db
import os , time, datetime
import tkinter as tk # ?
def menumenu():
menu = input("1.(A)dd an entry. \n 2.(V)iew entries?").strip().lower()
if menu[0] == "1" or menu[0] =="a":
print("")
def get_password():
trycounter = 0
password = entry.get() # ??
if password == db["correctpassword"]:
print("🔐Access Granted🔓")
#menumenu()
else:
print("🚨🔒Wrong Password🚨")
trycounter +=1
while True:
tryagain = input("Try again")
if tryagain != db["correctpassword"]:
trycounter +=1
if trycounter == 3:
print("👮Your actions have not gone unnoticed.")
exit()
root = tk.Tk()
root.attributes('-fullscreen', True)
root.title("Password Input")
label = tk.Label(root, text="What is your password?")
label.pack()
entry = tk.Entry(root, show="*")
entry.pack()
button = tk.Button(root, text="Submit", command=get_password)
button.pack()
root.mainloop()#👈
But then I tried to add a signup and login.
If the user tried to sign up, it would ask for them to create a username, and then check if that username already existed. If it existed it would tell them the username was taken and ask them to try again.
If it was not taken they would be prompted to enter a password and comfirm it,
then their username and password would be added to their database as
db[createusername] = confirmpassword.
I had finished the sign up part and started working on the login.
For login it would check if the username existed in their database and if it did: display “please login in the output window.” which I also managed to get working.
I was getting a couple errors though or inconsistencies, so I had to tinker with the order and structure of everything and I ended up getting to a point where password = entry.get() was no longer reachable, or defined or bound , (I cant remember.)
it was something similar to this I’m not sure if this was it exactly :
2
from replit import db
import os , time, datetime
import tkinter as tk # ?
print("")
def menumenu():
menu = input("1.(A)dd.\n2.(V)iew.").strip().lower()
if menu[0] == "1" or menu[0] == "a":
add()
elif menu[0] == "2" or menu[0] == "v":
view()
def createusernamefunction():
createusername = str(input("Create your username."))
keys = db.keys()
for key in keys:
if createusername == key:
print("usernametaken")
print("try another username")
print("or type menu to go back to the menu")
createusernamefunction()
elif createusername == "menu":
signuporlogin()
else:
while True:
createpassword = input("Create a password")
confirmpassword = input("confirm your password")
if confirmpassword != createpassword:
print("Try again.")
time.sleep(0.75)
else:
db[createusername] = confirmpassword
print("User+PW created.")
print("Welcome to your personal diary")
time.sleep(1.25)
os.system("clear")
break
def get_password():
trycounter = 0
password = entry.get() # ??
if password == db["correctpassword"]:
print("🔐Access Granted🔓")
menumenu()
else:
print("🚨🔒Wrong Password🚨")
trycounter +=1
while True:
tryagain = input("Try again")
if tryagain != db["correctpassword"]:
trycounter +=1
if trycounter == 3:
print("👮Your actions have not gone unnoticed.")
exit()
def loginpassword():
root = tk.Tk()#👈👇?
root.attributes('-fullscreen', True)
root.title("Password Input")
label = tk.Label(root, text="What is your password?")
label.pack()
entry = tk.Entry(root, show="*")
entry.pack()
button = tk.Button(root, text="Submit", command=get_password)
button.pack()
root.mainloop()#👈👆?
def signuporlogin():
login = input("Sign up or Log In?").strip().lower()
if login[0] == "s" or login[0] == "1":
createusernamefunction()
elif login[0] == "l" or login[0] =="2":
askusername = input("what is your username?")
keys = db.keys()
for key in keys:
#print(key)
if askusername == key:
print("Check the output window/tab")
loginpassword()
if askusername not in keys:
print("Username not found")
signuporlogin()
def createusername():
createusername = str(input("Create your username."))
keys = db.keys()
for key in keys:
while createusername == key:
print("usernametaken")
print("try another username")
createusername()
else:
while True:
createpassword = input("Create a password")
confirmpassword = input("confirm your password")
if confirmpassword != createpassword:
print("Try again.")
time.sleep(0.75)
else:
db[createusername] = confirmpassword
print("User+PW created.")
print("Welcome to your personal diary")
time.sleep(1.25)
os.system("clear")
break (also tried exit() to end the program and the user has to restart to login)
This will go through the sign up process . create a username and password, and then welcome you to the “personal diary” but then goes back to create a username or password instead of taking me to the add or view diary entries.
(This is just one of the copies i made of main.)
Eventually I got it to exit the program instead of incorrectly asking for another password input.
I had this
3
which would give me an error when i entered a valid username to try to login :
So I tried moving password = entry.get() from again where it was (line 60) :
to : (line 44)
which now shows :
and
(correct password entered)
so I declared askusername and entry as global
which gets rid of their undefined name errors
but still gives me :
So my question is where do I put everything to make it work . This is the furthest i’ve gotten.
I feel like it would work if I put everything I have in its right place but I honestly don’t know. At this point I can no longer tell where things should go.
from replit import db
import os , time, datetime
import tkinter as tk # ?
global askusername
print("")
def menumenu():
menu = input("1.(A)dd.\n2.(V)iew.").strip().lower()
if menu[0] == "1" or menu[0] == "a":
add()
elif menu[0] == "2" or menu[0] == "v":
view()
import time
import os
def create_username_function():
while True:
create_username = input("Create your username: ")
keys = db.keys()
if create_username in keys:
print("Username taken. Try another username or type 'menu' to go back.")
else:
create_password = input("Create a password: ")
confirm_password = input("Confirm your password: ")
if confirm_password != create_password:
print("Passwords do not match. Try again.")
time.sleep(0.75)
else:
db[create_username] = confirm_password
print("User+PW created.")
print("Welcome to your personal diary.")
time.sleep(1.25)
os.system("clear")
break
# Assume db is defined somewhere before calling create_username_function
# db = {}
def get_password():
global askusername, entry
trycounter = 0
password = entry.get() # ??
if password == db[askusername]:
print("🔐Access Granted🔓")
menumenu()
else:
print("🚨🔒Wrong Password🚨")
trycounter +=1
while True:
tryagain = input("Try again")
if tryagain != db[askusername]:
trycounter +=1
if trycounter == 3:
print("👮Your actions have not gone unnoticed.")
exit()
def loginpassword():
root = tk.Tk()#👈👇?
root.attributes('-fullscreen', True)
root.title("Password Input")
label = tk.Label(root, text="What is your password?")
label.pack()
entry = tk.Entry(root, show="*")
entry.pack()
button = tk.Button(root, text="Submit", command=get_password)
button.pack()
root.mainloop()#👈👆?
def signuporlogin():
login = input("Sign up or Log In?").strip().lower()
if login[0] == "s" or login[0] == "1":
create_username_function()
elif login[0] == "l" or login[0] =="2":
askusername = input("what is your username?")
keys = db.keys()
for key in keys:
#print(key)
if askusername == key:
print("Check the output window/tab")
loginpassword()
if askusername not in keys:
print("Username not found")
signuporlogin()
Can anyone help me please
I guess getpass was updated, it used to do what you want it to do.
Yes i had asked the replit ai for various methods and they all kept just showing me asterisks AFTER I hit enter, not as I was typing the password in.
I was contemplating just leaving it as
from getpass import getpass as input
so the entry would be hidden entirely (like in the 2 player rock paper scissors game)
but then as i was testing it i wasnt sure if i accidentally entered a letter twice, and thought “I wish i could see asterisks instead of not seeing anything because then I would be able to tell ‘oh theres 3 asterisks that means I didn’t enter a letter twice on accident,’” or “oh theres 4 aterisks that means I did enter a key twice on accident.”
Then it gave me the tkinter as tk which *does mask my password as 's and I thought it was cool because I haven’t made anything for the output window yet. So I decided to try to use it.
I just asked chat gpt for help and it fixed the NameError: name ‘entry’ is not defined error for me though.
Summary
it said :
It seems that the issue you’re encountering is related to the scope of the entry variable in the get_password function. The entry variable is defined within the loginpassword function, making it local to that function. Therefore, when you try to access it in the get_password function, a NameError occurs because entry is not defined in the global scope or passed as an argument to get_password.
To fix this issue, you can modify the loginpassword function to return the entry widget, and then pass it as an argument to the get_password function. Here’s a modified version of your code:
and gave me this :
from replit import db
import os, time
import tkinter as tk
global askusername
def menumenu():
menu = input("1.(A)dd.\n2.(V)iew.").strip().lower()
if menu[0] == "1" or menu[0] == "a":
add()
elif menu[0] == "2" or menu[0] == "v":
view()
import time
import os
def create_username_function():
while True:
create_username = input("Create your username: ")
keys = db.keys()
if create_username in keys:
print("Username taken. Try another username or type 'menu' to go back.")
else:
create_password = input("Create a password: ")
confirm_password = input("Confirm your password: ")
if confirm_password != create_password:
print("Passwords do not match. Try again.")
time.sleep(0.75)
else:
db[create_username] = confirm_password
print("User+PW created.")
print("Welcome to your personal diary.")
time.sleep(1.25)
os.system("clear")
break
def get_password(entry):
global askusername
trycounter = 0
password = entry.get()
if password == db[askusername]:
print("🔐Access Granted🔓")
menumenu()
else:
print("🚨🔒Wrong Password🚨")
trycounter += 1
while True:
tryagain = input("Try again: ")
if tryagain == db[askusername]:
trycounter = 0
break
else:
trycounter += 1
if trycounter == 3:
print("👮Your actions have not gone unnoticed.")
exit()
def loginpassword():
root = tk.Tk()
root.attributes('-fullscreen', True)
root.title("Password Input")
label = tk.Label(root, text="What is your password?")
label.pack()
entry = tk.Entry(root, show="*")
entry.pack()
button = tk.Button(root, text="Submit", command=lambda: get_password(entry))
button.pack()
root.mainloop()
def signuporlogin():
login = input("Sign up or Log In?").strip().lower()
if login[0] == "s" or login[0] == "1":
create_username_function()
elif login[0] == "l" or login[0] == "2":
global askusername
askusername = input("What is your username?")
keys = db.keys()
for key in keys:
if askusername == key:
print("Check the output window/tab")
loginpassword()
break
else:
print("Username not found")
signuporlogin()
This should resolve the NameError issue. The lambda: get_password(entry) in the command parameter of the submit button ensures that the entry widget is passed to the get_password function when the button is clicked.
Which works how I wanted it to.
or
So I’m all good now haha.
Sorry for the post then (ai) answering my own question.
er actually it’s still giving me an error if i enter a wrong password more than once,
but I’ll try to figure this out for a while and come back if(probably WHEN😂) I need help (again)
I guess I could just exit() if they enter the wrong password the first time.
but if i wanted to use my 3 strikes :
(i was using password = input(“what is your password?”)
(but if they entered a wrong password i was using tryagain = input("try again")#what is your password?
So I tried changing tryagain= to password= but still get the Runtime error can’t re-enter line .
(just for password instead of tryagain)
^
https://replit.com/@vvithershins/Day62100Days#Runtimeerrorversion1.py
for this error right now.
I got it now 
. I just gotta fix the try counter.
from replit import db
import os, time
import tkinter as tk
global askusername
def menumenu():
menu = input("1.(A)dd.\n2.(V)iew.").strip().lower()
if menu[0] == "1" or menu[0] == "a":
add()
elif menu[0] == "2" or menu[0] == "v":
view()
import time
import os
def create_username_function():
while True:
create_username = input("Create your username: ")
keys = db.keys()
if create_username in keys:
print("Username taken. Try another username or type 'menu' to go back.")
else:
create_password = input("Create a password: ")
confirm_password = input("Confirm your password: ")
if confirm_password != create_password:
print("Passwords do not match. Try again.")
time.sleep(0.75)
else:
db[create_username] = confirm_password
print("User+PW created.")
print("Welcome to your personal diary.")
time.sleep(1.25)
os.system("clear")
break
def get_password(entry):
global askusername
trycounter = 0
password = entry.get()
if password == db[askusername]:
print("🔐Access Granted🔓")
menumenu()
else:
print("🚨🔒Wrong Password🔒🚨")
trycounter += 1
while True:
print("Try again: ")
loginpassword()
password = entry.get()
if passwowrd == entry.get():
trycounter = 0
break
else:
trycounter += 1
if trycounter == 3:
print("👮Your actions have not gone unnoticed.")
exit()
def loginpassword():
root = tk.Tk()
root.attributes('-fullscreen', True)
root.title("Password Input")
label = tk.Label(root, text="What is your password?")
label.pack()
entry = tk.Entry(root, show="*")
entry.pack()
button = tk.Button(root, text="Submit", command=lambda: get_password(entry))
button.pack()
root.mainloop()
def signuporlogin():
login = input("Sign up or Log In?").strip().lower()
if login[0] == "s" or login[0] == "1":
create_username_function()
elif login[0] == "l" or login[0] == "2":
global askusername
askusername = input("What is your username?")
keys = db.keys()
for key in keys:
if askusername == key:
print("Check the output window/tab")
loginpassword()
break
else:
print("Username not found")
signuporlogin()
I thought hmm what if i just use the loginpassword function again instead of just a regular input and it worked.
lol i see something that’s wrong with the try counter now I was using
password = entry.get()
if passwowrd == entry.get(): #lol
trycounter = 0
break
I meant to say
password = entry.get()
if passwowrd == db[askusername]:
trycounter = 0
break
I got it now 
again sorry for the lengthy post, i have been stuck on this for like 3 days now.
Oh I think I misunderstood what you want it to do then
You can use this
from pwinput import pwinput as input
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That happens to me alot, I’m sorry. I don’t talk to people often.
it works
Saving
in my notes.
I changed it to just from pwinput import pwinput
so I can turn it on and off easier.
Details
from pwinput import pwinput
createusername = input("Create Username")
print(createusername)
yourpw = pwinput("make a password")
print(yourpw)
shows :
I also have this version which uses the output window (spoiler in case anyone wants to try to think about how to do it first):
import tkinter as tk
def pwinput(prompt, mask_password=True):
result = None
def get_password(entry):
nonlocal result
result = entry.get()
root.destroy()
root = tk.Tk()
root.attributes('-fullscreen', True)
root.title("Password Input")
label = tk.Label(root, text=prompt)
label.pack()
entry = tk.Entry(root, show="*" if mask_password else "")
entry.pack()
button = tk.Button(root, text="Submit", command=lambda: get_password(entry))
button.pack()
root.mainloop()
return result
# Example usage
print("check the output window")
yourpw = pwinput("Make a password")
print("you entered:", yourpw)
hello = pwinput("Enter a greeting", mask_password=False)
print("you entered:", hello)
greeting = input("enter a greeting")
print(greeting)
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