asking for username and password from user using python

Question

I am trying to write a code to fetch data from VM using python.

To start I am trying to ask username and password (not visible or display special character) just how we do in powershell using Get-Credential

I tried below code, it is asking for username but password prompt us not coming

import winrm, getpass
try:
    usrname = input("Enter Username: ")
    passwd = input("Enter Password: ", getpass.getpass())
except Exception as err:
   print('Error Occured : ', err)

Can you please let me know what is wrong. I am using Pycharm to write and execute my code in windows.

getpass.getpass handles input itself. It doesn't need to be passed to input function. Just use passwd = getpass.getpass('Enter Password: ') — Евгений Крамаров
– Евгений Крамаров, Commented Apr 26, 2022 at 14:47
@ЕвгенийКрамаров: tried this. but still it is not prompting for password. after entering username when i hit enter, it is blank. — Empty Coder
– Empty Coder, Commented Apr 26, 2022 at 14:49
Does this answer your question? How to use the Python getpass.getpass in PyCharm — Евгений Крамаров
– Евгений Крамаров, Commented Apr 26, 2022 at 20:11

Ximaz · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-26 14:47:51Z

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The input function in Python only takes one argument. To get the password, you can do this :

try:
    usrname = input("Enter Username: ")
    passwd = getpass.getpass("Enter your password: ")
except Exception as err:
   print('Error Occured : ', err)

answered Apr 26, 2022 at 14:47

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Empty Coder Over a year ago

tried this. but still it is not prompting for password. after entering username when i hit enter, it is blank.

Ximaz Over a year ago

Can you put some other part of the code ? Such as the way around calling the prompt, if it's a function or something ? Did you try adding breakpoints on PyCharm to see what's happening while runtime ?

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