[issue11466] getpass.getpass doesn't close tty file
Éric Araujo
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Mar 19 14:29:28 CET 2011
Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:
> About security: i think that you, Éric, have referred to this
> when you've said "your patch is not uncontroversial".
No, I was only referring to the fact that one unrelated change was present in a patch while it was still being discussed in another issue (“This new patch (11466.2.patch) also includes the #11236 patch”).
> it would be easier if _raw_input() would take a terminal_setup=False argument
> and encapsulate echoing of a final newline
It’s a private function, it that makes the patch smaller let’s change it. The current patch looks rather complicated just to close a file object.
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