curriculum/1.solar-system/3.strings/04.the-validator/index.md

type, title, xp, duration, difficulty

type	title	xp	duration	difficulty
challenge	The Validator	75	30	2

The Validator

[INCOMING — Mission Control, Earth]

Cadet, every system that takes user input has to validate it.

Comparison operators (>=, <, ==) return True or False directly. String methods like .isupper() and .isdigit() also return booleans:

len("hello") >= 8       # False
"Hello"[0].isupper()    # True
"abc1"[-1].isdigit()    # True

Implement validate(pw) that returns a dict with four checks on a non-empty password:

• length — char count (int)
• long_enough — length >= 8 (bool)
• starts_capital — first char uppercase (bool)
• ends_digit — last char a digit (bool)

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Your Task

In starter/starter.py, return the dict using len(), >=, .isupper(), .isdigit().

Objectives

• All four keys present with correct types
• validate("Andromeda1") matches the expected dict exactly
• Works for any non-empty password