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Ryan Saxe
Ryan Saxe

Reputation: 17829

getpass not working properly

So I don't know if I am missing some documentation, but I have two issues with getpass.

  1. I can't seem to save the password

  2. It echos the password after

    >>> pass = getpass.getpass()
  File "<stdin>", line 1
pass = getpass.getpass()
     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> getpass.getpass()
Password: 
'ryan'

Am I doing something wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1478

Answers (2)

Joran Beasley
Joran Beasley

Reputation: 113930

Pass is a python keyword, meaning that you can't assign variables to it. Try psswd or something similar instead.

Upvotes: 7

jfs
jfs

Reputation: 414079

1) I can't seem to save the password.

>>> pass = getpass.getpass()
...
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The syntax error is expected:

>>> import keyword
>>> keyword.kwlist
['and', 'as', 'assert', 'break', 'class', 'continue', 'def', 'del', 'elif', 'else', 'except', 'exec', 'finally', 'for', 'from', 'global', 'if', 'import', 'in', 'is', 'lambda', 'not', 'or', 'pass', 'print', 'raise', 'return', 'try', 'while', 'with', 'yield']
>>> 'pass' in keyword.kwlist
True

You can't assign to a keyword except to those that are active only after corresponding __future__ import.

2) It echos the password after:

>>> getpass.getpass()
Password: 
'most bear metal bright'

You see repr() of the returned value from getpass() function. Assign it to a variable:

>>> cleartext = getpass.getpass()
Password: 
>>> compare_hash(crypt.crypt(cleartext, hashed), hashed)
False

Upvotes: 0

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