GNU bug report logs - #27154
25.2; python.el shell does not respect getpass.getpass prompt

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Diego Fernandez <difernan <at> redhat.com>

Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 21:10:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.2

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 27154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 27154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Diego Fernandez <difernan <at> redhat.com>
Subject: Re: bug#27154: 25.2;
 python.el shell does not respect getpass.getpass prompt
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 19:48:19 -0400

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I see comint-watch-for-password-prompt was taken out a few years ago (a6dc66a),
> for performance reasons, https://debbugs.gnu.org/16875 . Though from the
> numbers quoted there, it doesn't look like it was causing any problem.

Yeah, it looks like it was just a casualty of over zeolous streamlining.

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> writes:

> Hmm, not working here - see attachment.
>
> Also when typing the password, it is not echoed. Just dots appear in
> minibuffer.

That means it's working.

> BTW comint-watch-for-password-prompt was already in comint mode -
> another add-hook seems redundant.

Yeah, the problem is that python-mode removes it.

> Looks like the inconvenient results from Python itself - see outside-emacs.png

Sure, the filter isn't supposed to prevent your python program from
printing passwords.
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