[Python-ideas] Password masking for getpass.getpass

[Oleg Broytman]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 01:22:02PM +1100, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:54:14PM +1100, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> >> The old convention on Linux and Unix is to just suppress all feedback,
> >> but even on Linux GUI applications normally show bullets ??? or asterisks.
> >
> >    Modern GUIs show the real character for a short period of time and
> > then replace it with an asterisk.
> 
> Ugh. I've only seen that on mobile devices, not on any desktop GUI,

   On desktop (Windows) I saw a password entry with a checkbox to switch
between real characters and asterisks.

> and I think it's a sop to the terrible keyboards they have. I hope
> this NEVER becomes a standard on full-sized computers with real
> keyboards.
> 
> ChrisA

Oleg.
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