Re: [Python-Dev] Suggestion on back-porting - a getpass issue.

2011-03-24 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Greg Ewing wrote: > > >http://bugs.python.org/issue11236 > >getpass.getpass does not respond to ctrl-c or ctrl-z > > Could this have been deliberate so that people can > put control characters in their passwords? I don't think so. There are discussions in the internet which don't favor use of co

Re: [Python-Dev] Suggestion on back-porting - a getpass issue.

2011-03-24 Thread Greg Ewing
Senthil Kumaran wrote: http://bugs.python.org/issue11236 getpass.getpass does not respond to ctrl-c or ctrl-z Could this have been deliberate so that people can put control characters in their passwords? -- Greg ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-De

[Python-Dev] Suggestion on back-porting - a getpass issue.

2011-03-24 Thread Senthil Kumaran
The issue is this: http://bugs.python.org/issue11236 getpass.getpass does not respond to ctrl-c or ctrl-z Python 2.5 had a behavior when a user pressed CTRL-C at the getpass prompt, it would raise a KeyBoardInterrupt and CTRL-Z would background it. Python 2.6 onwards this behavior got changed a