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I want to ask what changes we can make to our input function so that whatever we type as input is represented as a '*'.As we all have seen that when we type a password on the login page it gets written as ******* .Can this be done in python? something like this:

Python 3.6.6 (v3.6.6:4cu1f74eh7, Jun 27 2018, 02:47:15) [MSC v.1900 64 bit 
(Intel)] on win64
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>>> a = input('Write your password here:')
Write your password here: ************* # we write our password
>>> print(a)
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The getpass is not working and giving a warning too.

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  • Looking at the docs you can read that If echo free input is unavailable getpass() falls back to printing a warning message to stream and reading from sys.stdin and issuing a GetPassWarning. Commented Aug 15, 2018 at 15:44
  • @toti08 Thanks! now I know Commented Aug 15, 2018 at 15:48

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You can use the following library to do so

import getpass

pswd = getpass.getpass('Write your password here:')
print(pswd)
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Why isn't it doing anything
It is hiding the input and when you press enter then it is printing the input you made
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use getpass

like

import getpass s = getpass.getpass("Write your password here:") Write your password here: # input will be hidden

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