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:mod:`getpass` --- Portable password input
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:synopsis: Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid.
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.. moduleauthor:: Piers Lauder <piers@cs.su.oz.au>
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.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
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.. Windows (& Mac?) support by Guido van Rossum.
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The :mod:`getpass` module provides two functions:
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.. function:: getpass([prompt[, stream]])
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Prompt the user for a password without echoing. The user is prompted using the
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string *prompt*, which defaults to ``'Password: '``. On Unix, the prompt is
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written to the file-like object *stream*. *stream* defaults to the
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controlling terminal (/dev/tty) or if that is unavailable to ``sys.stderr``
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(this argument is ignored on Windows).
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If echo free input is unavailable getpass() falls back to printing
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a warning message to *stream* and reading from ``sys.stdin`` and
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issuing a :exc:`GetPassWarning`.
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Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows.
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.. versionchanged:: 2.5
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The *stream* parameter was added.
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.. versionchanged:: 2.6
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On Unix it defaults to using /dev/tty before falling back
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to ``sys.stdin`` and ``sys.stderr``.
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If you call getpass from within IDLE, the input may be done in the
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terminal you launched IDLE from rather than the idle window itself.
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.. exception:: GetPassWarning
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A :exc:`UserWarning` subclass issued when password input may be echoed.
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.. function:: getuser()
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Return the "login name" of the user. Availability: Unix, Windows.
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This function checks the environment variables :envvar:`LOGNAME`,
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:envvar:`USER`, :envvar:`LNAME` and :envvar:`USERNAME`, in order, and returns
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the value of the first one which is set to a non-empty string. If none are set,
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the login name from the password database is returned on systems which support
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the :mod:`pwd` module, otherwise, an exception is raised.