On Jul 4, 8:50 am, Mariano Mara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone. > I'm building a script with optparse. One of the parameters will be a > password. > How can I code the optparse to accept/handle/format the password so that > the user does not have to write it in plain/visible text in the terminal? > > TIA, > Mariano.
If you insist on those "requirements", you don't need to do anything special in the call to optparse. However you do need to (1) do some experimentation to determine the set of non-printing characters that can be entered at the command line and passed though to the application without being changed or "interpreted" by the shell(s) or Python or optparse (2) restrict the password-issuer so that passwords must be composed only from the so-determined set (3) buy some ear plugs to block out the screaming from the users ... Alternatively, change the requirements to something like: (1) check if there is an interactive console/tty [if not, abort] (2) use getpass.getpass to prompt for a password. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
