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Categorize Password as Strong or Weak using Regex in Python

Last Updated : 15 Jul, 2025

Given a password, we have to categorize it as a strong or weak one. There are some checks that need to be met to be a strong password. For a weak password, we need to return the reason for it to be weak. Conditions to be fulfilled are:

• Minimum 9 characters and maximum 20 characters.
• Cannot be a newline or a space
• There should not be three or more repeating characters in a row.
• The same string pattern(minimum of two character length) should not be repeating.

Note: For checking the basic validations of a password, click here. Examples:

Input1 : Qggf!@ghf3
Output1 : Strong Password!

Input2 : aaabnil1gu
Output2 : Weak Password: Same character repeats three 
or more times in a row

Input3 : Geeksforgeeks
Output3 : Weak Password: Same character repeats three 
or more times in a row

Input4 : Aasd!feasnm
Output4 : Weak password: Same string pattern repetition

Input5 : 772*hdf77
Output5 : Weak password: Same string pattern repetition

Input6 : " "
Output6 : Password cannot be a newline or space!

Below is the implementation. 

# Categorizing password as Strong or 
# Weak in Python using Regex 


import re 


# Function to categorize password 
def password(v): 

    # the password should not be a 
    # newline or space 
    if v == "\n" or v == " ": 
        return "Password cannot be a newline or space!"

    # the password length should be in 
    # between 9 and 20 
    if 9 <= len(v) <= 20: 

        # checks for occurrence of a character 
        # three or more times in a row 
        if re.search(r'(.)\1\1', v): 
            return "Weak Password: Same character repeats three or more times in a row"

        # checks for occurrence of same string 
        # pattern( minimum of two character length) 
        # repeating 
        if re.search(r'(..)(.*?)\1', v): 
            return "Weak password: Same string pattern repetition"

        else: 
            return "Strong Password!"

    else: 
        return "Password length must be 9-20 characters!"

# Main method 
def main(): 

    # Driver code 
    print(password("Qggf!@ghf3")) 
    print(password("Gggksforgeeks")) 
    print(password("aaabnil1gu")) 
    print(password("Aasd!feasn")) 
    print(password("772*hd897")) 
    print(password(" ")) 


# Driver Code 
if __name__ == '__main__': 
    main() 

Strong Password!
Weak password: Same string pattern repetition
Weak Password: Same character repeats three or more times in a row
Weak password: Same string pattern repetition
Strong Password!
Password cannot be a newline or space!

Time Complexity: O(N)  N is refers to the length of the input password string,
Auxiliary Space: O(1) 

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