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ActivePython 2.4

Python Documentation

Library Reference

6. Generic Operating System Services

6.1 os -- Miscellaneous operating system interfaces

6.2 os.path -- Common pathname manipulations

6.3 dircache -- Cached directory listings

6.4 stat -- Interpreting stat() results

6.5 statcache -- An optimization of os.stat()

6.6 statvfs -- Constants used with os.statvfs()

6.7 filecmp -- File and Directory Comparisons

6.8 subprocess -- Subprocess management

6.9 popen2 -- Subprocesses with accessible I/O streams

6.10 datetime -- Basic date and time types

6.11 time -- Time access and conversions

6.12 sched -- Event scheduler

6.13 mutex -- Mutual exclusion support

6.14 getpass -- Portable password input

6.15 curses -- Terminal handling for character-cell displays

6.16 curses.textpad -- Text input widget for curses programs

6.17 curses.wrapper -- Terminal handler for curses programs

6.18 curses.ascii -- Utilities for ASCII characters

6.19 curses.panel -- A panel stack extension for curses.

6.20 getopt -- Parser for command line options

6.21 optparse -- More powerful command line option parser

6.22 tempfile -- Generate temporary files and directories

6.23 errno -- Standard errno system symbols

6.24 glob -- Unix style pathname pattern expansion

6.25 fnmatch -- Unix filename pattern matching

6.26 shutil -- High-level file operations

6.27 locale -- Internationalization services

6.28 gettext -- Multilingual internationalization services

6.29 logging -- Logging facility for Python

6.30 platform -- Access to underlying platform's identifying data.

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6.14 `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.

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