Not displaying Input in Python

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I want to ask what changes we can make to our input function so that whatever we type as input is represented as a '*'.As we all have seen that when we type a password on the login page it gets written as ******* .Can this be done in python? something like this:

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>>> a = input('Write your password here:')
Write your password here: ************* # we write our password
>>> print(a)
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The getpass is not working and giving a warning too.

Possible duplicate of [Getting command-line password input in Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9202224/getting-command-line-password-input-in-python) — Daria Pydorenko, Aug 15 '18 at 15:10
Looking at the [docs](https://docs.python.org/3.1/library/getpass.html) you can read that **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.** — toti08, Aug 15 '18 at 15:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 15 '18 at 15:12

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You can use the following library to do so

import getpass

pswd = getpass.getpass('Write your password here:')
print(pswd)

answered Aug 15 '18 at 15:12

argo

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Why isn't it doing anything – Python03 Aug 15 '18 at 15:20
It is hiding the input and when you press enter then it is printing the input you made – argo Aug 15 '18 at 15:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 15 '18 at 15:15

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use getpass

like

import getpass s = getpass.getpass("Write your password here:") Write your password here: # input will be hidden

answered Aug 15 '18 at 15:15

Yumm 114514

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Please note that @argo already provided a similar answer, avoid adding duplicates. – toti08 Aug 15 '18 at 15:30

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 15 '18 at 15:18

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You can use the getpass module in python.

a = getpass.getpass("Write your password here:")

When you do the above you'll get the following:

Write your password here: #No Characters Shown

You can however write a function to store the entered text and report only a string of *'s when called. Kinda like this, which I did not write

answered Aug 15 '18 at 15:18

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Please note that @argo already provided a similar answer, avoid adding duplicates. – toti08 Aug 15 '18 at 15:30

Not displaying Input in Python

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