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  1. rjzak created this gist Dec 30, 2016.
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    #!/usr/bin/python3

    import os
    import sys
    import glob
    import codecs
    import random

    cleanup = lambda x: x.split("/")[0] if "/" in x else x # Some hunspell entries have slashes in the second to last character.

    num = 4
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    try:
    num = int(sys.argv[1])
    except:
    pass

    words = list()
    dicts = list()

    if os.path.exists("/usr/share/hunspell"):
    dicts += glob.glob("/usr/share/hunspell/*.dic")

    if os.path.exists("/usr/share/dict"):
    dicts += glob.glob("/usr/share/dict/*-*")

    for dictfile in dicts:
    with open(dictfile, encoding="utf-8", errors="ignore") as f:
    [words.append(cleanup(word.strip())) for word in f]

    words = list(set(words))
    password = ' '.join(random.choice(words) for i in range(num))
    print(password)
    print("Generated from %d dictionary files." % len(dicts))