getpass.getpass() bugged?

[Fredrik Lundh]

<super_banane at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The getpass.getpass() function should
> be requesting a password without echoing it...
> but unfortunately it does:
> 
> >>> import getpass
> >>> getpass.getpass()
> Password: hello
> 'hello'
> >>>
> 
> Python I use is v1.5.2
> Same behaviour on Solaris 2.6 and HPUX-10.20.
> Works fine with Python v1.5.1 on Linux, though.

make sure the termios module is available.

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