From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 20:00:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: When sys.stdin.fileno() doesn't work, fall back to default_getpass()
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2a2~259
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef0056ae1a5f6dd2cc10505fb10e7653418d7f1f;p=python

When sys.stdin.fileno() doesn't work, fall back to default_getpass()
-- don't just die.
---

diff --git a/Lib/getpass.py b/Lib/getpass.py
index be7a2f9049..f0aea63ac3 100644
--- a/Lib/getpass.py
+++ b/Lib/getpass.py
@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ def getpass(prompt='Password: '):
 		else:
 			return win_getpass(prompt)
 
-	fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
+	try:
+		fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
+	except:
+		return default_getpass(prompt)
 	old = termios.tcgetattr(fd)	# a copy to save
 	new = old[:]