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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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