[issue36566] Support password masking in getpass.getpass()

2019-04-08 Thread Cheryl Sabella
Cheryl Sabella added the comment: Thank you for the suggestion. I believe this is a duplicate of issue 32884. -- nosy: +cheryl.sabella resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> Adding the ability for getpass to print asterisks when passowrd

[issue36566] Support password masking in getpass.getpass()

2019-04-08 Thread Steven Vascellaro
New submission from Steven Vascellaro : Support password masking in getpass.getpass() Currently, getpass.getpass() hides all user input when entering a password. This can throw off non-Unix users who are used to passwords being masked with asterisks *. This has led some users to write their o