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diff --git a/Doc/library/getpass.rst b/Doc/library/getpass.rst index ffe2b12..211563e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/getpass.rst +++ b/Doc/library/getpass.rst @@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ The :mod:`getpass` module provides two functions: .. function:: getpass(prompt='Password: ', stream=None) 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). + the string *prompt*, which defaults to ``'Password: '``. On Unix, the + prompt is written to the file-like object *stream* using the replace error + handler if needed. *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 |