How to take input password ?

Question

i mean like when we enter our password anywhere it appears as "*" . how can i take input like that?

Answer 1

You can use 'getpass' module for that. It doesn't show characters when typing:

import getpass

pwd = getpass.getpass('Enter your password: ')
print('You set your password to:', pwd)

Answer 2

Then I think you have to write your own implementation with msvcrt or curses module (depending on your OS).

https://docs.python.org/3/library/msvcrt.html
https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/curses.html

Answer 3

@N0ob only via code comments for now :)

Answer 4

In a window or a terminal ?
In a window, just do your own entry bar
In a terminal, well .... I do not know ... set the terminal in no waiting for user input, and each time the user enter a character, enter \r ' ' so that you remove it
I know how to do it in C on unix systems but not in Python

Answer 5

@Kuba I've tried that getpass... but it just makes whatever we write invisible. What i wanted to do is to make it look like '*****'.