[New-bugs-announce] [issue7208] Getpass echo's password to screen on 2.6, but not on 2.5 or 3.1

[Peter Saunders]

New submission from Peter Saunders <pajs at fodder.org.uk>:

Only sucessfully replicated on solaris.

When running getpass() - it goes into non echo mode, however, once enter
is pressed, the password is echoed to the screen. E.g.

> /opt/python/2.6.3/bin/python -c 'import getpass; x=getpass.getpass()'
Password: bob

This does NOT happen on older versions:
> /opt/IBpython/2.5.1/bin/python -c 'import getpass; x=getpass.getpass()'
Password:

/opt/python/2.3.3/bin/python -c 'import getpass; x=getpass.getpass()'
Password:

To stop this occuring for me, simply adding a stream.flush() line
straight after the 

            finally:
                termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, old)

line fixes the issue:
saundep at ln8u3494inx:[/tmp]> /opt/IBpython/2.6.3/bin/python -c 'import
gp; gp.getpass()'
Password:

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 94488
nosy: pajs at fodder.org.uk
severity: normal
status: open
title: Getpass echo's password to screen on 2.6, but not on 2.5 or 3.1
versions: Python 2.6

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