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-\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}