Question

I am having the following problem where the user keeps pressing “enter key” on the command window when the python script is running…following is what runs on the command window,but user keeps pressing enter which eventually gets fed into password and the script fails,how do I prevent this?

 Parsing the XML

 Building the build combo table

  **Password: //asks for password but user had multiple enter key presses above which is taken as passoword and fails**

Python code:-

url='http://wiki.com/'+wikiName+'/w/index.php?title='+hId +'_'+rId+'&action=edit'
cookiehand = urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor()
password_mgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
password_mgr.add_password(user=getpass.getuser(),passwd=getpass.getpass(),uri=authhost,realm=realm)
auth_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_handler, cookiehand)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
# make the request
req = urllib2.Request(url=url)
try:
    f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
    txt = f.read()
    f.close()
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
    txt = ''
    print 'An error occured connecting to the wiki. No wiki page will be generated.'//eventually gets this error

Answer 1

I think you should try flushing the user input just before you read the password.

In order to do so, having a look at this other post might help.