silent raw_input for passwords

[Stephen Boulet]

I need a password for a script and I would like to not have it stored in a
file or shown in a terminal.

"passphrase = raw_input()" still lets you see the input on the screen. Is
there a way to have it be hidden? It's my gpg passphrase, so I don't want
it anywhere except in my head.

If anyone's interested, I'm wrapping the command for the duplicity program
(incremental GPG encrypted backups to an FTP server;
http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/):

===========================
#!/bin/env python

from ftplib import FTP
from os import popen

dirfile = '/usr/local/backups.txt'
dirs = file(dirfile).read().split('\n')

host = 'ftphost'
uname = 'ftpuname'
password = 'ftppass'

ftp = FTP(ftphost)
ftp.login(ftpuname,ftppass)
l=ftp.nlst()

for i,dir in enumerate(dirs):
    if str(i+1) not in l:
        print 'Directory "%s" is not on the FTP server.' % dir
        print "Creating directory %d on server..." % (i+1)
        ftp.mkd(str(i+1))
ftp.quit()

print "Starting duplicity synchronization ..."
print "Enter your passphrase:"
passphrase = raw_input()
passphrase = "PASSPHRASE=" + passphrase

for i in range(1,len(dirs)+1):
    command = passphrase + ' duplicity ftp://'
    command += ftpuname + '@' + ftphost + '/ "'
    command += dirs[i-1] + '" ' + str(i)
    print "Starting backup of directory %s" % dirs[i-1]
    popen(command).read()

print "Done!"


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