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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libgetpass.tex b/Doc/lib/libgetpass.tex deleted file mode 100644 index a742439..0000000 --- a/Doc/lib/libgetpass.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,36 +0,0 @@ -\section{\module{getpass} - --- 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 (& Mac?) support by Guido van Rossum. -\sectionauthor{Fred L. Drake, Jr.}{fdrake@acm.org} - - -The \module{getpass} module provides two functions: - - -\begin{funcdesc}{getpass}{\optional{prompt\optional{, stream}}} - Prompt the user for a password without echoing. The user is - prompted using the string \var{prompt}, which defaults to - \code{'Password: '}. On \UNIX, the prompt is written to the - file-like object \var{stream}, which defaults to - \code{sys.stdout} (this argument is ignored on Windows). - - Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX, Windows. - \versionchanged[The \var{stream} parameter was added]{2.5} -\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 - returns the value of the first one which is set to a non-empty - string. If none are set, the login name from the password database - is returned on systems which support the \refmodule{pwd} module, - otherwise, an exception is raised. -\end{funcdesc} |