When I ran my new password program, using getpass, it warned me that
passwords might be echoed, because there was a problem with getpass. How do
I fix this?
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From: "Alan G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Nathan Pinno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Alberto Troiano"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Danny Yoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "luke"
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Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help with file I/O.
>>> You might find the getpass module useful for that...
>>> It provides a raw_input style prompt that doesn't
>>> display what the user types...
>
>> Does it display stars instead?
>
> No, its more secure than that, it doesn't display anything.
>
> But like anything in Python the esiest way to find out is just to try it
> at the >>> prompt.
>
>>>> import getpass
>>>> pw = getpass.getpass('Password: ')
> Password:
>>>> print pw
> mysecret
>>>>
>
> HTH
>
> Alan G
>
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