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+:mod:`getpass` --- Portable password input
+==========================================
+
+.. module:: getpass
+   :synopsis: Portable reading of passwords and retrieval of the userid.
+.. moduleauthor:: Piers Lauder <piers@cs.su.oz.au>
+.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
+.. Windows (& Mac?) support by Guido van Rossum.
+
+The :mod:`getpass` module provides two functions:
+
+
+.. function:: getpass([prompt[, stream]])
+
+   Prompt the user for a password without echoing.  The user is prompted using the
+   string *prompt*, which defaults to ``'Password: '``. On Unix, the prompt is
+   written to the file-like object *stream*.  *stream* defaults to the
+   controlling terminal (/dev/tty) or if that is unavailable to ``sys.stderr``
+   (this argument is ignored on Windows).
+
+   If echo free input is unavailable getpass() falls back to printing
+   a warning message to *stream* and reading from ``sys.stdin`` and
+   issuing a :exc:`GetPassWarning`.
+
+   Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.5
+      The *stream* parameter was added.
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.6
+      On Unix it defaults to using /dev/tty before falling back
+      to ``sys.stdin`` and ``sys.stderr``.
+   .. note::
+      If you call getpass from within IDLE, the input may be done in the
+      terminal you launched IDLE from rather than the idle window itself.
+
+
+.. exception:: GetPassWarning
+
+   A :exc:`UserWarning` subclass issued when password input may be echoed.
+
+
+.. function:: getuser()
+
+   Return the "login name" of the user. Availability: Unix, Windows.
+
+   This function checks the environment variables :envvar:`LOGNAME`,
+   :envvar:`USER`, :envvar:`LNAME` and :envvar:`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 :mod:`pwd` module, otherwise, an exception is raised.
+