input: 
  def generate_password() -> str:
      """ Generate a random password consisting of 8 characters, 
      including letters, numbers, and special characters.
      >>> generate_password()
      '3#z8Pq!w'
      """
  
output:     import random
      import string
  
      characters = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + string.punctuation
      password = ''.join(random.choice(characters) for _ in range(8))
      return password