How to have password echoed as asterisks

Question

I am trying to figure out how to prompt for a password, and have the users input echoed back as asterisks (********)

So recently, I took on the project

Answer 1

I think this way is very simple and effective

import sys
import msvcrt

passwor = ''
while True:
    x = msvcrt.getch()
    if x == '\r':
        break
    sys.stdout.write('*')
    passwor +=x

print '\n'+passwor