Here's a function that prompts for a password with echoing turned
off. Note the technique using a separate tcgetattr() call
and a try ... finally statement to ensure that the
old tty attributes are restored exactly no matter what happens:
def getpass(prompt = "Password: "):
import termios, sys
fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
old = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
new = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
new[3] = new[3] & ~termios.ECHO # lflags
try:
termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, new)
passwd = raw_input(prompt)
finally:
termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, old)
return passwd
