Re: [Tutor] issuing system commands

2007-01-26 Thread Kent Johnson
Dan Klose wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to break my nasty habit of doing EVERYTHING in perl and for > this task I figure python is one of the better options. > > I would like to do several things: > > 1. take user input - this will be a password > 2. use some sort of function that converts t

[Tutor] issuing system commands

2007-01-26 Thread Dan Klose
Hi All, I am trying to break my nasty habit of doing EVERYTHING in perl and for this task I figure python is one of the better options. I would like to do several things: 1. take user input - this will be a password 2. use some sort of function that converts the unser input to * or the typical