raw_input on password
John Machin
sjmachin at lexicon.net
Mon Feb 25 22:08:09 EST 2002
"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier at nortelnetworks.com_.nospam> wrote in message news:<slrna7lf63.4pb.msoulier at pmerd071.ca.nortel.com>...
> Hey people.
>
> My apologies if this has been asked before. I didn't see it...
Funny how Google has its off days.
>
> Is there a way to get raw_input() to mask the response, so it can be used
> to request a password safely?
>
Not as far as I can tell from reading the manual. There may be a
secret hidden argument which you could discover by reading the source
code. However I doubt it.
Completely off-topic w.r.t. your question, why don't you use the
getpass module?
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