Hey, getpass() seems to be crashing my WinNT system. Is there some way I can manually change the echo to aterisks or something? I'm writing a _really_ simple program that just encrypts text files past in on the command line using the rotor module. I'm using getpass to get the key... is this a bad idea? Is there a better way? Andrew ~ elecfsh aetodd at wm.edu