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Hey all just started dabbling in a little Python to help out with a few scripts at work, but I seem to be getting hung up on a little issue.
I am using Eclipse with pydev for my development platform and developing against python 2.7.3. I am just trying to prompt a user for their password, using:
password = getpass.getpass()
That line works as expected when running in the terminal/command prompt, however when I am running in the Eclipse console, the user's input isn't hidden like it should be. Any ideas how to fix this?
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The getpass() function is used to prompt to users using the string prompt and reads the input from the user as Password. The input read defaults to “Password: ” is returned to the caller as a string. Here, no prompt is provided by the caller. So, it is set to the default prompt “Password”.
The getpass module provides two functions: getpass. getpass(prompt='Password: ', stream=None) Prompt the user for a password without echoing. The user is prompted using the string prompt, which defaults to 'Password: ' .
The getpass module provides a platform-independent way to enter a password in a command-line program, as Example 2-25 shows. getpass(prompt) prints the prompt string, switches off keyboard echo, and reads a password. If the prompt argument is omitted, it prints " Password: “.
This is documented behaviour - some terminals are not capable of echo-free input, in that case, it should give a warning instead:
If echo free input is unavailable getpass() falls back to printing a warning message to stream and reading from sys.stdin and issuing a GetPassWarning.
From the docs for getpass.getpass().
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