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Asked: 2026-05-23T09:18:30+00:00

I’m trying to write a program that is going to print its prompts to

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I’m trying to write a program that is going to print its prompts to standard error, and its output to standard out so that I can later manipulate the output.

I’m a bit new to python, but the documentation for getpass() shows I should be able to select a stream:

getpass.getpass([prompt[, stream]])

I have tried a variety of arguments to getpass, but I cant seem to get it to prompt in stderr. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

>>> password = getpass.getpass("Password", sys.stderr)
TypeError: unix_getpass() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)
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  1. Editorial Team

    the stream argument to getpass.getpass() was added in python 2.5, and isn’t available in prior versions.

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