Issue36566
Created on 2019-04-08 20:05 by stevoisiak, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin. This issue is now closed.
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| msg339671 - (view) | Author: Steven Vascellaro (stevoisiak) * | Date: 2019-04-08 20:05 | |
Support password masking in getpass.getpass() Currently, getpass.getpass() hides all user input when entering a password. This can throw off non-Unix users who are used to passwords being masked with asterisks *. This has led some users to write their own libraries for this functionality. Proposal: - Add an optional argument to `getpass.getpass()` for a character to mask user input Usage Example: > import getpass > password = getpass.getpass(mask='*') Password: ********** > password = getpass.getpass() Password: |
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| msg339675 - (view) | Author: Cheryl Sabella (cheryl.sabella) *  |
Date: 2019-04-08 21:05 | |
Thank you for the suggestion. I believe this is a duplicate of issue 32884. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:59:13 | admin | set | github: 80747 |
| 2019-04-08 21:05:01 | cheryl.sabella | set | status: open -> closed superseder: Adding the ability for getpass to print asterisks when password is typed nosy:
+ cheryl.sabella |
| 2019-04-08 20:05:07 | stevoisiak | create | |