getpass.getpass on Windows

[Doug Bonar]

import getpass
getpass.getpass()

hangs Spyder (2.1.11) when running on Windows.  Googling around, it seems to be a known problem, but I wasn't able to find any workaround.  Is there a fix / patch?  If not, it there a suggested alternative way to get user entered passwords?

Thanks,

[Carlos Córdoba]

I'm sorry but I think there is no alternative or workaround for using
getpass because it seems to need a real terminal to do its job.

Here is some advice that could help you:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4826732/how-to-redirect-data-to-a-getpass-like-password-input

Cheers,
Carlos

El 04/03/13 08:33, Doug Bonar escribió:

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[Doug Bonar]

Thanks,

What I will likely do is put a text input dialog into the ExternalPythonShell class and pass the given password down to the external shell.   Pretty ugly, but I think I can make it work. 

On a related note, is there any thought of adding a hook to ExternalPythonShell.send_to_process so that new commands can be added w/o replicating the logic of the method?  Assuming I do go with a dialog box widget, it would be nice to be able to have a shell command, e.g. %password, which popped up the dialog and then passed the response down to the external shell wrapped in something more specific than 'evalsc' .  (Obviously, I would have to add the new external shell command in my startup script).

Doug