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6.11 `getpass` -- Portable password input

The getpass module provides two functions:

getpass ([prompt]): Prompt the user for a password without echoing. The user is prompted using the string prompt, which defaults to 'Password: '. Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows.

getuser (): Return the ``login name'' of the user. Availability: Unix, Windows. This function checks the environment variables $LOGNAME, $USER, $LNAME and $USERNAME, in order, and returns the value of the first one which is set to a non-empty string. If none are set, the login name from the password database is returned on systems which support the pwd module, otherwise, an exception is raised.