pop3 mail download - using python.org example

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 18 20:53:15 EST 2006


Kevin F <neurogasm at gmail.com> wrote:

> i'm trying to this this code to access my pop server but it only prompts
> for a password and not a username, how do i get it to ask for my 
> username as well?

getpass.getuser() doesn't prompt, it gets your username from the
environment or the OS.  If you want a raw input function that prompts,
instead of that call rawinput('User: ') ...


Alex



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