getpass() problems..

[Guido van Rossum]

Andrew Todd <aetodd at wm.edu> writes:

>   getpass() seems to be crashing my WinNT system. Is there 
> some way I can manually change the echo to aterisks or 
> something? I'm writing a _really_ simple program that just 
> encrypts text files past in on the command line using the 
> rotor module. I'm using getpass to get the key... is this a 
> bad idea? Is there a better way?

Strange.  You *should* be able to use the routines in the msvcrt
module to write your own getpass()-like routine.  Are you running
Norton Antivirus 2000?  Are you *sure* the problem is in getpass()?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)