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Getting a hidden password input

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How do I create a hidden password in HTML?

<input type = "password" > Thus the entered characters are masked or hidden. To make a textbox that can hide the entered characters, the type attribute of <input> element should be set to "password."

How do I hide password when entering Python?

In Python with the help of maskpass() module and base64() module we can hide the password of users with asterisk(*) during input time and then with the help of base64() module it can be encrypted.

How do you put an eye icon in a password field?

Use the tag <i> to display the eye icon. This icon is also known as the visibility eye icon.


Use getpass.getpass():

from getpass import getpass
password = getpass()

An optional prompt can be passed as parameter; the default is "Password: ".

Note that this function requires a proper terminal, so it can turn off echoing of typed characters – see “GetPassWarning: Can not control echo on the terminal” when running from IDLE for further details.


import getpass

pswd = getpass.getpass('Password:')

getpass works on Linux, Windows, and Mac.


Use getpass for this purpose.

getpass.getpass - Prompt the user for a password without echoing


This code will print an asterisk instead of every letter.

import sys
import msvcrt

passwor = ''
while True:
    x = msvcrt.getch()
    if x == '\r':
        break
    sys.stdout.write('*')
    passwor +=x

print '\n'+passwor