username/password dialog prompt

[Irmen de Jong]

On 6-11-2009 20:41, Dan Winsor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To preface, I'm a bit of a python novice, but I have been poking
> around for the solution for a bit and have found actually too many
> leads which has wedged me.  I'm looking to impliment a dialog,
> preferably using Tkinter, that will prompt for a username and
> password.  I'd like to have the password field blanked (via show="*"),
> and have the dialog return both fields to the command line script that
> I'm launching it from.  Can someone recommend a good example or
> tutorial to work from?  Thanks very much in advance.

My Tkinter is very rusty but perhaps you could do it something like 
this:   http://pastebin.com/m5e49da19

I forgot how to get rid of the empty root window that appears, sorry.

-irmen