[PSA MEMBERS] getpass .. bug ?

Skip Montanaro skip at mojam.com
Thu Jan 20 15:06:18 EST 2000


    MFS> Hi, just waned to mention the when the optional argument |prompt|
    MFS> is used in getpass from the getpass module, the passowrd is echo'ed
    MFS> to the terminal.

    Jeremy> This is strange.  I do not see the reported behavior on my
    Jeremy> Sparc. 

Perhaps an environmental thing, IDLE vs non-IDLE?  I keep seeing notes about 
problems with interactive prompting type thingies in an IDLE context.
Perhaps this is another case?

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