How to create a password entry field using Tkinter

I am trying to code a login window using Tkinter but I'm not able to hide the password text in asterisk format. This means the password entry is plain text, which has to be avoided. Any开发者_如何学JAVA idea how to do it?

A quick google search yielded this

widget = Entry(parent, show="*", width=15)

where widget is the text field, parent is the parent widget (a window, a frame, whatever), show is the character to echo (that is the character shown in the Entry) and width is the widget's width.

If you don't want to create a brand new Entry widget, you can do this:

myEntry.config(show="*");

To make it back to normal again, do this:

myEntry.config(show="");

I discovered this by examining the previous answer, and using the help function in the Python interpreter (e.g. help(tkinter.Entry) after importing (from scanning the documentation there). I admit I just guessed to figure out how to make it normal again.

widget_name = Entry(parent,show="*")

You can also use a bullet symbol:

bullet = "\u2022" #specifies bullet character
widget_name = Entry(parent,show=bullet)#shows the character bullet

Here's a small, extremely simple demo app hiding and fetching the password using Tkinter.

#Python 3.4 (For 2.7 change tkinter to Tkinter)
    
from tkinter import * 
        
def show():
    p = password.get() #get password from entry
    print(p)
        
    
app = Tk()   
password = StringVar() #Password variable
passEntry = Entry(app, textvariable=password, show='*')
submit = Button(app, text='Show Console',command=show)

passEntry.pack() 
submit.pack()      

app.mainloop() 

Hope that helps!

I was looking for this possibility myself. But the immediate "hiding" of the entry did not satisfy me. The solution I found in the modification of a tk.Entry, whereby the delayed hiding of the input is possible:

Basically the input with delay is deleted and replaced

        def hide(index: int, lchar: int):
            i = self.index(INSERT)
            for j in range(lchar):
                self._delete(index + j, index + 1 + j)
                self._insert(index + j, self.show)
            self.icursor(i)

and the keystrokes are written into a separate variable.

    def _char(self, event) -> str:
        def del_mkey():
            i = self.index(INSERT)
            self._delete(i - 1, i)

        if event.keysym in ('Delete', 'BackSpace'):
            return ""
        elif event.keysym == "Multi_key" and len(event.char) == 2:  # windows stuff
            if event.char[0] == event.char[1]:
                self.after(10, del_mkey)
                return event.char[0]
            return event.char
        elif event.char != '\\' and '\\' in f"{event.char=}":
            return ""
        elif event.num in (1, 2, 3):
            return ""
        elif event.state in self._states:
            return event.char
        return ""

Look for PassEntry.py if this method suits you.