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author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-05-12 18:05:20 (GMT) |
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committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-05-12 18:05:20 (GMT) |
commit | e6bcc9145e3ecae592dd2e24da5508f34022b920 (patch) | |
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Remove many "versionchanged" items that didn't use the official markup,
but just some text embedded in the docs.
Also remove paragraph about implicit relative imports from tutorial.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/getpass.rst b/Doc/library/getpass.rst index 91c811b..ff1c091 100644 --- a/Doc/library/getpass.rst +++ b/Doc/library/getpass.rst @@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ The :mod:`getpass` module provides two functions: .. function:: getpass([prompt[, stream]]) - Prompt the user for a password without echoing. The user is prompted using the - string *prompt*, which defaults to ``'Password: '``. On Unix, the prompt is - written to the file-like object *stream*. *stream* defaults to the - controlling terminal (/dev/tty) or if that is unavailable to ``sys.stderr`` - (this argument is ignored on Windows). + Prompt the user for a password without echoing. The user is prompted using + the string *prompt*, which defaults to ``'Password: '``. On Unix, the prompt + is written to the file-like object *stream*. *stream* defaults to the + controlling terminal (:file:`/dev/tty`) or if that is unavailable to + ``sys.stderr`` (this argument is ignored on Windows). If echo free input is unavailable getpass() falls back to printing a warning message to *stream* and reading from ``sys.stdin`` and @@ -24,9 +24,6 @@ The :mod:`getpass` module provides two functions: Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows. - .. versionchanged:: 2.6 - On Unix it defaults to using /dev/tty before falling back - to ``sys.stdin`` and ``sys.stderr``. .. note:: If you call getpass from within IDLE, the input may be done in the terminal you launched IDLE from rather than the idle window itself. |