Hide raw_input text?

[tmallen]

I'm working on a little FTP project to get comfortable with ftplib.
It's all terminal-based right now, and one issue I'm having is hiding
password input text. I'd like one of two things to happen with this:
Either don't show any characters while I'm typing (like $ su), or
better, a '*' for every character. Is there a way to do this? I'm
planning on building this into a GUI tool using Tkinter or wxPython,
so methods using a secret input for those might be helpful as well ( I
could jump straight into the GUI part).

Thanks!

[Jerry Hill]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:26 PM, tmallen <th**********@gmail.comwrote:

I'm working on a little FTP project to get comfortable with ftplib.
It's all terminal-based right now, and one issue I'm having is hiding
password input text. I'd like one of two things to happen with this:
Either don't show any characters while I'm typing (like $ su),

The getpass module does that. http://docs.python.org/lib/module-getpass.html

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Jerry

[Fredrik Lundh]

tmallen wrote:

I'm working on a little FTP project to get comfortable with ftplib.
It's all terminal-based right now, and one issue I'm having is hiding
password input text. I'd like one of two things to happen with this:
Either don't show any characters while I'm typing (like $ su), or
better, a '*' for every character. Is there a way to do this? I'm
planning on building this into a GUI tool using Tkinter or wxPython,
so methods using a secret input for those might be helpful as well ( I
could jump straight into the GUI part).

for console input, use the getpass module:

>>import getpass
getpass.getpass("Password: ")

Password:
'trustno1'

for GUI toolkits, the standard text entry widgets usually support
password input (e.g. using the show option in Tkinter, the wxTE_PASSWORD
style in wxPython, etc).

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[Support Desk]

-----Original Message-----
From: tmallen [mailto:th**********@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:26 PM
To: py*********@python.org
Subject: Hide raw_input text?

I'm working on a little FTP project to get comfortable with ftplib.
It's all terminal-based right now, and one issue I'm having is hiding
password input text. I'd like one of two things to happen with this:
Either don't show any characters while I'm typing (like $ su), or
better, a '*' for every character. Is there a way to do this? I'm
planning on building this into a GUI tool using Tkinter or wxPython,
so methods using a secret input for those might be helpful as well ( I
could jump straight into the GUI part).

Thanks!