John Machin wrote: > Is that meant to be a statement or a question?
Heh heh, sorry! I guess both. Let me clarify: > (1) what platform you are running on, WinXP >(2) did you enter that at > the usual OS command line (with/without readline), or in an IDE (e.g > IDLE) or some other shell (e.g. IPython) IDLE >(3) version numbers of Python > and any other relevant software 2.4.3 and nothing else special is running >(4) Is the question idle curiosity yes, most of my questions are :) >(5) have you been molesting your > console with e.g. stty ... nope, none of that stuff > (6) what conclusions you have after reading > <your_Python_installation_directory>/Lib/getpass.py if sys.stdin is not sys.__stdin__: return default_getpass(prompt) Ah ha! So it only works at the command prompt, unless I change __stdin__? Thanks for teaching me a lesson! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list