Issue 1445068: getpass.getpass queries on STDOUT not STERR (*nix) (original) (raw)

Expected behavior of a *nix system would be to get the password query on STDERR, so that (for non-interactive applications) one can send the output of the command to somewhere else, and not be hanging on a password request that was never seen by the user at the terminal. (And also so that output isn't polluted by the password request, when parsing it via a pipeline.)