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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-03-12 18:34:21 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-03-12 18:34:21 (GMT)
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Added availabililty annotations to respond to concerns of /F.
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@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
\section{\module{getpass}
- --- Portable password reading.}
+ --- Portable password input}
\declaremodule{standard}{getpass}
+\modulesynopsis{Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid.}
\moduleauthor{Piers Lauder}{piers@cs.su.oz.au}
-% Windows support by Guido van Rossum.
+% Windows (& Mac?) support by Guido van Rossum.
\sectionauthor{Fred L. Drake, Jr.}{fdrake@acm.org}
-\modulesynopsis{Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid.}
-
The \module{getpass} module provides two functions:
@@ -16,11 +15,13 @@ The \module{getpass} module provides two functions:
Prompt the user for a password without echoing. The user is
prompted using the string \var{prompt}, which defaults to
\code{'Password: '}.
+ Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX{}, Windows.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{getuser}{}
Return the ``login name'' of the user.
+ Availability: \UNIX{}, Windows.
This function checks the environment variables \envvar{LOGNAME},
\envvar{USER}, \envvar{LNAME} and \envvar{USERNAME}, in order, and