From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 20:22:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Be nicer to systems that have neither termios nor msvcrt.
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.1~12
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb9b7fd5ee265255c18f8c1f6220f7ea27f5ed97;p=python

Be nicer to systems that have neither termios nor msvcrt.
---

diff --git a/Lib/getpass.py b/Lib/getpass.py
index 44e78c264b..8bd75233f1 100644
--- a/Lib/getpass.py
+++ b/Lib/getpass.py
@@ -22,7 +22,12 @@ def getpass(prompt='Password: '):
 	try:
 		import termios, TERMIOS
 	except ImportError:
-		return win_getpass(prompt)
+		try:
+			import msvcrt
+		except ImportError:
+			return default_getpass(prompt)
+		else:
+			return win_getpass(prompt)
 
 	fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
 	old = termios.tcgetattr(fd)	# a copy to save
@@ -59,6 +64,10 @@ def win_getpass(prompt='Password: '):
 	return pw
 
 
+def default_getpass(prompt='Password: '):
+	return raw_input(prompt)
+
+
 def getuser():
 	"""Get the username from the environment or password database.