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

[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 control character in password. And anyway, it was not
intention to introduce control characters in password, for the change
in 2.6.

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Senthil