getpass – Getpass Module

This module provides a way to get input from user without echoing it.

Available on these boards
  • 01Space 0.42 OLED ESP32C3
  • 0xCB Helios
  • 42. Keebs Frood
  • 8086 USB Interposer
  • AITHinker ESP32-C3S_Kit
  • AITHinker ESP32-C3S_Kit_2M
  • ARAMCON Badge 2019
  • ARAMCON2 Badge
  • ATMegaZero ESP32-S2
  • Adafruit CLUE nRF52840 Express
  • Adafruit Camera
  • Adafruit Circuit Playground Bluefruit
  • Adafruit EdgeBadge
  • Adafruit Feather Bluefruit Sense
  • Adafruit Feather ESP32 V2
  • Adafruit Feather ESP32-C6 4MB Flash No PSRAM
  • Adafruit Feather ESP32-S2 Reverse TFT
  • Adafruit Feather ESP32-S2 TFT
  • Adafruit Feather ESP32-S3 Reverse TFT
  • Adafruit Feather ESP32-S3 TFT
  • Adafruit Feather ESP32S2
  • Adafruit Feather ESP32S3 4MB Flash 2MB PSRAM
  • Adafruit Feather ESP32S3 No PSRAM
  • Adafruit Feather HUZZAH32
  • Adafruit Feather M4 CAN
  • Adafruit Feather M4 Express
  • Adafruit Feather MIMXRT1011
  • Adafruit Feather RP2040
  • Adafruit Feather RP2040 Adalogger
  • Adafruit Feather RP2040 CAN
  • Adafruit Feather RP2040 DVI
  • Adafruit Feather RP2040 Prop-Maker
  • Adafruit Feather RP2040 RFM
  • Adafruit Feather RP2040 Scorpio
  • Adafruit Feather RP2040 ThinkInk
  • Adafruit Feather RP2040 USB Host
  • Adafruit Feather RP2350
  • Adafruit Feather STM32F405 Express
  • Adafruit Feather nRF52840 Express
  • Adafruit Floppsy RP2040
  • Adafruit FunHouse
  • Adafruit Grand Central M4 Express
  • Adafruit HUZZAH32 Breakout
  • Adafruit Hallowing M4 Express
  • Adafruit ItsyBitsy ESP32
  • Adafruit ItsyBitsy M4 Express
  • Adafruit ItsyBitsy RP2040
  • Adafruit ItsyBitsy nRF52840 Express
  • Adafruit KB2040
  • Adafruit LED Glasses Driver nRF52840
  • Adafruit Macropad RP2040
  • Adafruit MagTag
  • Adafruit Matrix Portal M4
  • Adafruit MatrixPortal S3
  • Adafruit Metro ESP32S2
  • Adafruit Metro ESP32S3
  • Adafruit Metro M4 Airlift Lite
  • Adafruit Metro M4 Express
  • Adafruit Metro RP2040
  • Adafruit Metro RP2350
  • Adafruit Metro nRF52840 Express
  • Adafruit Monster M4SK
  • Adafruit PyGamer
  • Adafruit PyPortal
  • Adafruit PyPortal Pynt
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  • Adafruit QT Py ESP32 PICO
  • Adafruit QT Py ESP32-S3 4MB Flash 2MB PSRAM
  • Adafruit QT Py ESP32-S3 no psram
  • Adafruit QT Py ESP32C3
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  • Adafruit QT Py RP2040
  • Adafruit QT2040 Trinkey
  • Adafruit Trellis M4 Express
  • Adafruit Vindie S2
  • Adafruit-Qualia-S3-RGB666
  • Ai Thinker ESP32-CAM
  • AloriumTech Evo M51
  • Archi RP2040
  • Arduino Nano 33 BLE
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  • Arduino Nano ESP32
  • Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect
  • Artisense Reference Design RD00
  • AtelierDuMaker nRF52840 Breakout
  • AutosportLabs-ESP32-CAN-X2
  • BARDUINO 4.0.2
  • BBQ20KBD
  • BDMICRO VINA-D51
  • BLE-SS dev board Multi Sensor
  • BLING!
  • BLOK
  • BPI-Bit-S2
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  • BlueMicro840
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  • COSMO-Pico
  • CP32-M4
  • CRCibernetica IdeaBoard
  • Challenger NB RP2040 WiFi
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  • Challenger RP2040 SD/RTC
  • Challenger RP2040 SubGHz
  • Challenger RP2040 WiFi
  • Challenger RP2040 WiFi/BLE
  • Challenger+ RP2350 BConnect
  • Challenger+ RP2350 WiFi6/BLE5
  • CircuitART Zero S3
  • CircuitBrains Deluxe
  • ColumbiaDSL-Sensor-Board-V1
  • CrumpS2
  • Cytron EDU PICO W
  • Cytron IRIV IO Controller
  • Cytron MOTION 2350 Pro
  • Cytron Maker Feather AIoT S3
  • Cytron Maker Nano RP2040
  • Cytron Maker Pi RP2040
  • Cytron Maker Uno RP2040
  • DFRobot Beetle ESP32-C3
  • DFRobot FireBeetle 2 ESP32-S3
  • Datanoise PicoADK
  • Datanoise PicoADK V2
  • Deneyap Kart
  • Deneyap Kart 1A
  • Deneyap Kart 1A v2
  • Deneyap Kart G
  • Deneyap Mini
  • Deneyap Mini v2
  • Diodes Delight Piunora
  • DynOSSAT-EDU-OBC
  • E-Fidget
  • ELECFREAKS PICO:ED
  • ES3ink
  • ESP 12k NodeMCU
  • ESP32 Devkit V1
  • ESP32-C3-DevKitM-1
  • ESP32-C6-DevKitC-1-N8
  • ESP32-C6-DevKitM-1
  • ESP32-H2-DevKitM-1
  • ESP32-P4-Function-EV
  • ESP32-S2-DevKitC-1-N4
  • ESP32-S2-DevKitC-1-N4R2
  • ESP32-S2-DevKitC-1-N8R2
  • ESP32-S3-Box-2.5
  • ESP32-S3-Box-Lite
  • ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N16
  • ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N32R8
  • ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N8
  • ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N8R2
  • ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N8R8
  • ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N8R8-with-HACKTABLET
  • ESP32-S3-DevKitM-1-N8
  • ESP32-S3-EYE
  • ESP32-S3-USB-OTG-N8
  • ESP8684-DevKitC-02-N4
  • Electrolama minik
  • Electronut Labs Blip
  • Electronut Labs Papyr
  • EncoderPad RP2040
  • Espressif ESP32 DevKitc V4 WROOM-32E
  • Espressif ESP32 DevKitc V4 WROVER
  • Espressif ESP32 TTGO T8 v1.7
  • Espressif ESP32-EYE
  • Espressif ESP32-LyraT
  • Espressif-ESP32-S3-LCD-EV-Board
  • Espressif-ESP32-S3-LCD-EV-Board_v1.5
  • Espruino Bangle.js 2
  • Espruino Pico
  • Espruino Wifi
  • Feather MIMXRT1011
  • Feather MIMXRT1062
  • FeatherS2
  • FeatherS2 Neo
  • FeatherS2 PreRelease
  • FeatherS3
  • FeatherS3 Neo
  • Fig Pi
  • Flipper Zero Wi-Fi Dev
  • Fomu
  • Franzininho WIFI w/Wroom
  • Franzininho WIFI w/Wrover
  • Freenove ESP32-WROVER-DEV-CAM
  • Gravitech Cucumber M
  • Gravitech Cucumber MS
  • Gravitech Cucumber R
  • Gravitech Cucumber RS
  • HEIA-FR Picomo V2
  • HMI-DevKit-1.1
  • Hack Club Sprig
  • Hardkernel Odroid Go
  • Heltec ESP32-S3-WIFI-LoRa-V3
  • HexKyS2
  • HiiBot BlueFi
  • IMXRT1010-EVK
  • IMXRT1015-EVK
  • IkigaiSense Vita nRF52840
  • IoTs2
  • Kaluga 1
  • LILYGO T-DECK
  • LILYGO T-DISPLAY
  • LILYGO T-DISPLAY S3 v1.2
  • LILYGO T-Display S3 Pro
  • LILYGO T-Watch-S3
  • LILYGO TEMBED ESP32S3
  • LILYGO TTGO T-01C3
  • LILYGO TTGO T-DISPLAY v1.1
  • LILYGO TTGO T-DISPLAY v1.1 4M
  • LILYGO TTGO T-OI PLUS
  • LILYGO TTGO T8 ESP32-S2
  • LILYGO TTGO T8 ESP32-S2 w/Display
  • LOLIN S3 16MB Flash 8MB PSRAM
  • LOLIN S3 MINI 4MB Flash 2MB PSRAM
  • LOLIN S3 PRO 16MB Flash 8MB PSRAM
  • Lilygo T-watch 2020 V3
  • Luatos Core-ESP32C3
  • M5STACK STAMP-C3
  • M5Stack Atom Echo
  • M5Stack Atom Lite
  • M5Stack Atom Matrix
  • M5Stack Atom U
  • M5Stack AtomS3
  • M5Stack AtomS3 Lite
  • M5Stack AtomS3U
  • M5Stack Cardputer
  • M5Stack Core Basic
  • M5Stack Core Fire
  • M5Stack Core2
  • M5Stack CoreS3
  • M5Stack Dial
  • M5Stack M5Paper
  • M5Stack Stick C
  • M5Stack Stick C Plus
  • M5Stack Timer Camera X
  • MDBT50Q-DB-40
  • MDBT50Q-RX Dongle
  • MEOWBIT
  • MORPHEANS MorphESP-240
  • MagiClick S3 N4R2
  • Maker Go ESP32C3 Supermini
  • Maker Go ESP32C6 Supermini
  • Maker badge by Czech maker
  • MakerDiary nRF52840 MDK
  • MakerDiary nRF52840 MDK USB Dongle
  • MakerFabs-ESP32-S3-Parallel-TFT-With-Touch-7inch
  • Makerdiary M60 Keyboard
  • Makerdiary Pitaya Go
  • Makerdiary nRF52840 Connect Kit
  • Makerdiary nRF52840 M.2 Developer Kit
  • Maple Computing Elite-Pi
  • Melopero Shake RP2040
  • Metro MIMXRT1011
  • MicroDev microC3
  • MicroDev microS2
  • Mini SAM M4
  • MixGo CE
  • NUCLEO F446RE
  • NUCLEO STM32F746
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  • NanoS3
  • Neuron
  • NodeMcu-ESP32-C2
  • OMGS3
  • OPENMV-H7 R1
  • Oak Dev Tech BREAD2040
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  • Oak Dev Tech PixelWing ESP32S2
  • Oak Dev Tech RPGA Feather
  • Open Hardware Summit 2020 Badge
  • Oxocard Artwork
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  • Pimoroni Pico DV Base W
  • Pimoroni Pico LiPo (16MB)
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  • Pimoroni Pico Plus 2
  • Pimoroni Pico dv Base
  • Pimoroni PicoSystem
  • Pimoroni Plasma 2040
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  • Pimoroni Plasma 2350
  • Pimoroni Servo 2040
  • Pimoroni Tiny 2040 (2MB)
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  • Pimoroni Tiny 2350
  • Pimoroni Tiny FX
  • ProS3
  • PyCubedv04
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  • PyCubedv05
  • PyCubedv05-MRAM
  • PyKey 18 Numpad
  • PyKey 44 Ergo
  • PyKey 60
  • PyKey 87 TKL
  • PyboardV1_1
  • RF.Guru RP2040
  • RGBTouch Mini
  • RP2.65-F
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  • Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 IO Board
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  • SAM E54 Xplained Pro
  • SAM32v26
  • SPRESENSE
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  • ST STM32F746G Discovery
  • STM32F411E_DISCO
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  • STM32F4_DISCO
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  • Saola 1 w/Wrover
  • Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C3
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  • Seeed Xiao ESP32-S3 Sense
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  • Sparkfun Thing Plus MGM240P
  • Spotpear ESP32C3 LCD 1.44
  • Sunton ESP32-2424S012
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  • Sunton-ESP32-8048S070
  • SuperMini NRF52840
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  • THUNDERPACK_v12
  • TTGO T8 ESP32-S2-WROOM
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  • nice!nano
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  • sunton_esp32_2432S028
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  • takayoshiotake Octave RP2040
  • uGame22

getpass.getpass(prompt: str | None = 'Password: ', stream: io.FileIO | None = None) → str

Prompt the user without echoing.

Parameters:

  • prompt (str) – The user is prompted using the string prompt, which defaults to 'Password: '.

  • stream (io.FileIO) – The prompt is written to the file-like object stream if provided.