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From Al Lukaszewski, for About.com

Getting Login Information Securely

Wednesday June 11, 2008
It is an obvious security problem to get login information using simple, plain text input methods. Python's poplib module and other mail modules are transport protocol modules and therefore do not support any secure input. This is, however, the domain of Python's getpass module. If you need to get a password without echoing the keyboard input to screen, getpass is for you. Learn more about it in "Getting Login Information With getpass".

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