Getting command-line password input in Python

Question

You know how in Linux when you try some Sudo stuff it tells you to enter the password and  as you type  nothing is shown in the terminal window  the password is not shown    Is there a way to do that in Python  I m working on a script that requires so sensitive info and would like for it to be hidden when I m typing it    In other words  I want to get the password from the user without showing the password

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Use getpass getpass     from getpass import getpass password   getpass     An optional prompt can be passed as parameter  the default is  Password      Note that this function requires a proper terminal  so it can turn off echoing of typed characters     see    GetPassWarning  Can not control echo on the terminal    when running from IDLE for further details

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Here is my code based off the code offered by  Ahmed ALaa Features   Works for passwords up to 64 characters Accepts backspace input Outputs   character  DEC  42   HEX  0x2A  instead of the input character  Demerits   Works on Windows only  The function secure password input   returns the password as a string when called  It accepts a Password Prompt string  which will be displayed to the user to type the password def secure password input prompt          p s          proxy string           64     while True          sys stdout write   x0D    prompt      join proxy string           c   msvcrt getch           if c    b  r               break         elif c    b  x08               p s   p s  -1              proxy string len p s      quot   quot          else              proxy string len p s      quot   quot              p s    c decode        sys stdout write   n       return p s

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Use getpass for this purpose      getpass getpass - Prompt the user for a password without echoing

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This code will print an asterisk instead of every letter   import sys import msvcrt  passwor      while True      x   msvcrt getch       if x      r           break     sys stdout write          passwor   x  print   n  passwor

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Updating on the answer of  Ahmed ALaa    import msvcrt import getch  def getPass        passwor          while True          x   getch getch             x   msvcrt getch   decode  utf-8           if x      r  or x      n               break         print      end     flush True          passwor   x     return passwor  print   nout    getPass      msvcrt us only for windows  but getch from PyPI should work for both  I only tested with linux   You can also comment uncomment the two lines to make it work for windows

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import getpass  pswd   getpass getpass  Password      getpass works on Linux  Windows  and Mac

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15 7  getpass     Portable password input     usr bin python3 from getpass import getpass passwd   getpass  password     print passwd    You can read more here

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