Re: [Python-ideas] secrets module -- secret.keeper?

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:55:49PM -0400, Jim J. Jewett wrote:

Will the secrets module offer any building blocks to actually protect a secret?

e.g.,

an easy way to encrypt a file with a given password? an encrypted datastore?

I don't know. I think probably not -- they sound a bit too high level, at least for a first version. But if people want to propose functions to do so, they can be considered.

a getpass that works even in IDLE?

I would expect that if getpass doesn't work in IDLE, that's a bug (in IDLE or getpass, I'm not sure :-) -- Steve