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Old January 25th, 2004, 08:51 AM
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Hello,
I want to get a password with my program in the command line. Is there a function to get a password without show it in the shell like , for example, input_passwd() ?
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Old January 25th, 2004, 11:45 AM
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Yeah there is, what you're looking for would be named 'getpass' i.e.

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>>> import getpass
>>> passwd = getpass.getpass()
...
>>>


You can use this just like raw_input() but it shouldn't echo what the user types...

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Thank you, it works more securely now
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