Thanks Danny. Albertito and me thought there might be a bug there. I see that guess was wrong. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Danny Yoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nathan Pinno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Tutor" <tutor@python.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 7:41 PM Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help with file I/O.
> > > On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Nathan Pinno wrote: > >> > Warning: Problem with getpass. Passwords may be echoed. > >> It does indeed echo. I forgot to add that. > > > Hi Nathan, > > If you're running your program under IDLE, we shouldn't expect too much: > getpass depends on running under a console environment, and probably will > not work under IDLE. If you're running under a console window, getpass > should do the right thing. > > If this explains what's going on, then I wouldn't worry too much about > this. The reason is because if you ever do deploy your programs to other > people, you will almost certainly have them running standalone, outside of > IDLE, since IDLE's there just to help you program interactively. > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor