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<span id="getpass-portable-password-input"></span><h1><a class="reference internal" href="#module-getpass" title="getpass: Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">getpass</span></code></a> — Portable password input<a class="headerlink" href="#module-getpass" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-getpass" title="getpass: Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">getpass</span></code></a> module provides two functions:</p>
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<code class="descclassname">getpass.</code><code class="descname">getpass</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>prompt='Password: '</em>, <em>stream=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#getpass.getpass" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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<dd><p>Prompt the user for a password without echoing. The user is prompted using
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the string <em>prompt</em>, which defaults to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'Password:</span> <span class="pre">'</span></code>. On Unix, the
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(<code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/dev/tty</span></code>) or if that is unavailable to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sys.stderr</span></code> (this
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argument is ignored on Windows).</p>
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<p>If echo free input is unavailable getpass() falls back to printing
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issuing a <a class="reference internal" href="#getpass.GetPassWarning" title="getpass.GetPassWarning"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">GetPassWarning</span></code></a>.</p>
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<em class="property">exception </em><code class="descclassname">getpass.</code><code class="descname">GetPassWarning</code><a class="headerlink" href="#getpass.GetPassWarning" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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<dd><p>A <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#UserWarning" title="UserWarning"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">UserWarning</span></code></a> subclass issued when password input may be echoed.</p>
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<dd><p>Return the “login name” of the user.</p>
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<p>This function checks the environment variables <span class="target" id="index-0"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LOGNAME</span></code>,
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<span class="target" id="index-1"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">USER</span></code>, <span class="target" id="index-2"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LNAME</span></code> and <span class="target" id="index-3"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">USERNAME</span></code>, in order, and
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<p>In general, this function should be preferred over <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.getlogin" title="os.getlogin"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.getlogin()</span></code></a>.</p>
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