[Tutor] Contents of Tutor digest, help with Hangman program

[Alan Gauld]

"John Palmer" <speederpython at gmail.com> wrote

Please trim your messages and not post the entire digest.

> Hi Alan thanks for the help. I did try the getpass module, I think I 
> used:
>
> getpass.getpass()
>
> This actually prompted the user to enter a password, which isn't 
> really what
> I want. Unless there's something i'm missing with this module?

like raw_input you can supply a prompt to getpass()

>>> import getpass as gp
>>> gp.getpass()
Password:
'gghg'
>>> gp.getpass("Number?")
Number?
'hjggjkh'
>>>

HTH,


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