All in the title really...
I know you can use
getpass.getpass()
however, if distributing some code like this, people are used to having their characters by '*' so could give the impression that may make them believe their keyboard isn't working when they see no characters popping up on the screen.
I want to have 'example' show up as '*******' during the input, so that:
Enter Password: example
will show up as
Enter Password: *******
Thanks for any answers
I have a work around for you, which you can modify to your needs:
pip install getch. This module has methods for getting input char by char.Create a function that gets user input char by char and prints * in it's place:
#import sys (if option 1. is used)
import getch
def get_password():
p = ''
typed = ''
while True:
typed = getch.getch()
if typed == '\n':
print(typed)
break
p += typed
# Choose one of the following solutions:
# 1. General way. Needs import sys
sys.stdout.write('*')
sys.stdout.flush()
# 2. Python 3 way:
print('*', end='', flush=True)
return p
Good luck :)
From getpass documentation:
On Unix, the prompt is written to the file-like object stream using the replace error handler if needed.
stream defaults to the controlling terminal (/dev/tty) or if that is unavailable tosys.stderr(this argument is ignored on Windows).
So it behaves quite similarly with the function above, except that mine has no fallback option...
getpass module?
msvcrt and use it as msvcrt.getch()Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module> get_password() File "C:\Users\Default\Desktop\kjhgh.py", line 15, in get_password p += typed TypeError: must be str, not bytesprint() option instead!This one should do it:
import msvcrt
import sys
print('Enter your password: ')
password = ''
while True:
pressedKey = msvcrt.getch()
if pressedKey == '\r':
break
else:
password = password+pressedKey
sys.stdout.write('*')
print('\n' + password)
It is MS VC++ - Microsoft Visual C++ that works for windows. getpass uses this module, according to docs
Really stop re-inventing the wheel. DO NOT include something like this in your program, but have it use a password helper program.
See https://stackoverflow.com/a/67327327/701532
Of course if you write a GREAT password helper for inputing stars in python, like I did many years ago in shell... Go for it!
