[Tutor] Help with hangman

[Alan Gauld]

"John Palmer" <speederpython at gmail.com> wrote

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> Thanks a lot for the help guys, but when I use the 
> getpass.getpass(Enter
> your word here, I get a different response to what you get. This is 
> what
> happen with mine:
>
>>>> import getpass
>>>> s = getpass.getpass("Enter your word here: ")
> Warning: Password input may be echoed.
> Please enter your secret word: hangman
>
> I'm guessing that its something to do with the "Warning: Password 
> may be
> echoed" line. In the documentation it says:
>
> "If echo free input is unavailable getpass() falls back to printing 
> a
> warning message to stream and reading
> from sys.stdin and issuing a GetPassWarning."

What OS and terminal are you using?
It may be possible to enable echo free input...


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