#21169: add comment and doc update for getpass change.
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@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ The :mod:`getpass` module provides two functions:
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.. function:: getpass(prompt='Password: ', stream=None)
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Prompt the user for a password without echoing. The user is prompted using
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the string *prompt*, which defaults to ``'Password: '``. On Unix, the prompt
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is written to the file-like object *stream*. *stream* defaults to the
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controlling terminal (:file:`/dev/tty`) or if that is unavailable to
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``sys.stderr`` (this argument is ignored on Windows).
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the string *prompt*, which defaults to ``'Password: '``. On Unix, the
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prompt is written to the file-like object *stream* using the replace error
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handler if needed. *stream* defaults to the controlling terminal
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(:file:`/dev/tty`) or if that is unavailable to ``sys.stderr`` (this
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argument is ignored on Windows).
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If echo free input is unavailable getpass() falls back to printing
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a warning message to *stream* and reading from ``sys.stdin`` and
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@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ def _raw_input(prompt="", stream=None, input=None):
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try:
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stream.write(prompt)
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except UnicodeEncodeError:
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# Use replace error handler to get as much as possible printed.
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prompt = prompt.encode(stream.encoding, 'replace')
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prompt = prompt.decode(stream.encoding)
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stream.write(prompt)
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