How do I hide the answer given to a raw_input (and replace it with stars)?

[Natalie3]

Hi!
Long story short; I'm doing a bit more advanced version of the classic game Hangman. You play with a friend and the thing is that you could see what word your friend had inserted in the raw_input.
Now I want to replace every letter in the chosen word into a star(*) so that you can't see the secret word anywere.
I'd appreciate it if you'd write the code in the answer.

Thanks in advance.

[bvdet]

I don't know a way using raw_input, but you can do it with Tkinter. Example:

import Tkinter
 
textFont1 = ("Arial", 16, "normal")
 
class EntryWidget(Tkinter.Entry):
    def __init__(self, master, initial=""):
        Tkinter.Entry.__init__(self, master=master)
        self.value = Tkinter.StringVar()
        self.config(textvariable=self.value, width=20,
                    relief="sunken", font=textFont1,
                    bg="#eee", fg="#000",
                    justify='center',
                    show="*")
        self.pack()
        self.value.set(initial)
 
class App(Tkinter.Tk):
    def __init__(self, title="Hidden Entry"):
        Tkinter.Tk.__init__(self)
        self.title(title)
        self.w = EntryWidget(self)
        self.mainloop()
        self.value = self.w.value.get()
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = App()
    print app.value