For Your Eyes Only

For Your Eyes Only

We are back to the good stuff again!
Sometimes, we need to store information in our code that we don't want others to be able to see. Like passwords and such.
Replit repls are public, and we don't want other little forkers to get their hands on our passwords, do we?

👉 We can make information like this secret in our repls by selecting 'secrets' from the left hand toolbar.

👉 Secrets are a lot like dictionaries in that they have a key which is used to access a value. Let's set up a password secret.

As soon as we've done that, we get a bunch of options further down our secrets menu. They use the os library, so we'll need to import that.

👉 Now let's use our secret to set up a very simple login system.

import os
password = os.environ['password'] # Uses the os library to talk to the environment and get the secret password stored there.
userPass = input("Password > ")
if userPass == password:
print("Well done")
else:
print("Better luck next time")
The secret data does not get copied when the repl is forked, so it is protected from others getting a copy.

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FOR LOOP , RANGE

FOR LOOP A while loop is perfect to use when we don't know how many times we want the loop to repeat. If we have an idea of how many times we want the loop to repeat, we can use a for loop to loop code in exactly the same way the while loop did. EXAMPLE : for counter in range(10): print(counter) RANGE The range function creates a list of numbers in the range you create. If you only give it one number, it will start at 0 and move to a state where the final number is one less than the number in the brackets. In this case, the final number would be 9 . EXAMPLE : total = 0 for number in range(100) : total += number print(total)

ALL ABOUT WHILE LOOP

WHILE LOOP A while loop allows your code to repeat itself based on a condition you set. EXAMPLE : counter = 0 while counter < 10: print(counter) counter +=1 Infinite Loop You have to be really careful that you don't accidentally invoke an infinite loop! This is where the computer will loop code until the end of time. Without a break. Forever. This is just saying "count to 10 by 1 each time." to make the loop end. Don't forget, if your condition is a > then you might need to -= . This will subtract from the variable instead of adding to it. EXAMPLE : counter = 0 while counter < 10: print(counter) counter += 1

IF AND ELSE STATEMENT

If Statements These statements are a bit like asking a question. You are telling the computer: if something is true, then do this specific block of code. Double equals ( == ) is asking the computer to compare if these two things are exactly the same. EXAMPLE : myName = input("What's your name?: ") if myName == "David": What is else? IF the condition is not met with the if statement, then we want the computer to do the else part instead. Likewise, if the condition is met in the if statement, then the else bit is ignored by the computer. The else statement must be the first thing unindented after the if statement and in line with it EXAMPLE : myName = input("What's your name?: ") if myName == "David": print("Welcome Dude!") print("You're just the baldest dude I've ever seen...

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