From: XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes (Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Source Code Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:46:57 GMT Organization: Telefonica Transmision de Datos Lines: 21 Message-ID: <373e7242.2422651@noticias.iies.es> References: <373e1fb8 DOT 4801004 AT noticias DOT iies DOT es> <373B605D DOT BC323155 AT unb DOT ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: iies218.iies.es Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com El día Thu, 13 May 1999 19:29:33 -0400, Endlisnis escribió: >Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: > >> El día Wed, 12 May 1999 17:23:59 EDT, SAMSCOTTB AT aol DOT com escribió: >> >how would i disguise/encode things to the screen, such as when the user types >> >a it would show up a * or something? >> Use getpass() > > That just prints nothing, it doesn't prints '*'s. He asked for asterisks "or something", so I'm assuming that the issue here is that he doesn't get echo of what he is typing, like when you have to type in a password. Regards, GUILLE ---- Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes (ya sabes :-)