15.7. getpass — Portable password input

The getpass module provides two functions:

getpass.getpass([prompt[, stream]])

Prompt the user for a password without echoing. The user is prompted using the string prompt, which defaults to 'Password: '. On Unix, the prompt is written to the file-like object stream. stream defaults to the controlling terminal (/dev/tty) or if that is unavailable to sys.stderr (this argument is ignored on Windows).

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.

Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows.

Changed in version 2.5:

Changed in version 2.5: The stream parameter was added.

Changed in version 2.6:

Changed in version 2.6: On Unix it defaults to using /dev/tty before falling back to sys.stdin and sys.stderr.