Hello, I would like to propose a small change in the getpass module so it's able to get passwords from keyrings (like KWallet, Keychain, etc)
The idea is to provide a getpass.cfg configuration file where people can provide the name of a function to use when getpass is called. Then third-party projects can implement this function. For example the Python Keyring library.[1] could be installed and configured to be used by people that wants getpass calls to be handled by this tool. That's a backward compatible change, and it avoids adding any new module in the stdlib. Plus, it offers a greatly improved getpass module with no risks for the stdlib stability : it becomes a reference implementation with an interface for third-party implementers. A prototype is here : http://bitbucket.org/tarek/getpass/ (work in progress but you can get the idea) [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/keyring Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
