[Python-ideas] Password masking for getpass.getpass

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:54:14PM +1100, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> The old convention on Linux and Unix is to just suppress all feedback,
>> but even on Linux GUI applications normally show bullets ??? or asterisks.
>
>    Modern GUIs show the real character for a short period of time and
> then replace it with an asterisk.

Ugh. I've only seen that on mobile devices, not on any desktop GUI,
and I think it's a sop to the terrible keyboards they have. I hope
this NEVER becomes a standard on full-sized computers with real
keyboards.

ChrisA