supplying password to subprocess.call('rsync ...'), os.system('rsync ...')

[timw.google]

On Oct 5, 10:33 am, "timw.google" <tjand... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I want to write a python script that runs rsync on a given directory
> and host. I build the command line string, but when I try to run
> subprocess.call(cmd), or p=subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True),or
> os.system(cmd), I get prompted for my login password. I expected this,
> but when I try to give my password, it's echoed back to the terminal
> and the special characters in the password is (I think) getting
> interpreted by the shell (zsh)
>
> I can't ssh w/o supplying a password. That's the way the security is
> set up here.
>
> How do I use python to do this, or do I just have to write a zsh
> script?
>
> Thanks.

I wrote a zsh script to do what I wanted, but I'd still like to know
how to do it in Python.