From d59fefb23adc75fbdec618e24e93848ae406e3d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gregory P. Smith" Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:11:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update the getpass entry --- Misc/NEWS | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 51f6ce14c8..6a0e924629 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ Extensions Modules Library ------- -- getpass.getpass() now works when sys.stdin is not a tty by printing a warning - and falling back to sys.stdin.readline instead of raising termios.error. +- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty + by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is + issued when input echo cannot be controlled. - Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before 1900-01-01. -- 2.50.1