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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:37:25 pm John Palmer wrote:
> 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? I'll take another look anyway.

Tell the function what prompt to use:

>>> import getpass
>>> s = getpass.getpass("Please enter your secret word: ")
Please enter your secret word:
>>> 
>>> print s
anti-disestablishmentarianism



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Steven D'Aprano