OS specific command in Python

[Avell Diroll]

stephanearnold at yahoo.fr wrote:
> When you connect (via ssh or telnet) to a remote machine, you need to
> type (manually)
> your username and your password. Programming that is never easy.
> 

This is really eased by the module getpass (std library) :

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import getpass

login = getpass.getuser()
password = getpass.getpass()

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If the username is different from your system login this can be changed to :

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import getpass

login = raw_input('login: ')
password = getpass.getpass()

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Python definitely comes with batteries included !