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:mod:`getpass` --- Portable password input
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.. module:: getpass
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:synopsis: Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid.
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.. moduleauthor:: Piers Lauder <piers@cs.su.oz.au>
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.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
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.. % Windows (& Mac?) support by Guido van Rossum.
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The :mod:`getpass` module provides two functions:
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.. function:: getpass([prompt[, stream]])
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Prompt the user for a password without echoing. The user is prompted using the
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string *prompt*, which defaults to ``'Password: '``. On Unix, the prompt is
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written to the file-like object *stream*, which defaults to ``sys.stdout`` (this
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argument is ignored on Windows).
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Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows.
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.. function:: getuser()
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Return the "login name" of the user. Availability: Unix, Windows.
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This function checks the environment variables :envvar:`LOGNAME`,
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:envvar:`USER`, :envvar:`LNAME` and :envvar:`USERNAME`, in order, and returns
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the value of the first one which is set to a non-empty string. If none are set,
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the login name from the password database is returned on systems which support
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the :mod:`pwd` module, otherwise, an exception is raised.
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