How to change the text being inputted turn to '*' in python?

Question

how do I change the text to * while it is being inputted, like:

#Think that the code below is running in the console and I am 
#inputting in it

Password: Example # How do make it turn it to '*******' while it is still being written?

Yup, i am not forced to only input, I can type in any command, please just tell me how to.

And you can tell tk code too

Answer 1

For tkinter entry, use the option show. Here is a code:

import tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()
passw = tk.Entry(root,show="*")
passw.grid(row=0,column=0)
passb = tk.Button(root,text="Print Password",command=lambda :print(passw.get()))
passb.grid(row=1,column=0)
root.mainloop()

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To get password in console, you will have to modify the module getpass ^{(Try at your own risk)}. Go to your python folder and open folder Lib. Open the file getpass.py and go to line 98 (there will be a function naming win_getpass)
Replace the whole function (win_getpass) with (lines:98-119) ^(Updated):

def win_getpass(prompt='Password: ', stream=None,show=""):
    """Prompt for password with echo off, using Windows getch()."""
    if sys.stdin is not sys.__stdin__:
        return fallback_getpass(prompt, stream)

    for c in prompt:
        msvcrt.putwch(c)
    pw = ""
    while True:
        c = msvcrt.getwch()
        if c == '\r' or c == '\n':
            break
        if c == '\003':
            raise KeyboardInterrupt
        if c == '\b':
            pw = pw[:-1]
            if pw != "":msvcrt.putwch("\b");msvcrt.putwch(" ");msvcrt.putwch("\b")
        else:
            pw = pw + c
            msvcrt.putwch(show)
    msvcrt.putwch('\r')
    msvcrt.putwch('\n')
    return pw

Now you can use the getpass function as:

import getpass
getpass.getpass("Enter your password: ",show="*")

You can change the value of show to whatever you want to show. Default is empty (means hide).

Note:

getpass will only work in console. It will raise error in IDLE.

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