remove last STDOUT line in Python

Question

I am trying to figure out how to suppress the display of user input on stdout.

raw_input() followed by any print statement preserves what the user typed

Answer 1

The following code, based on the Python docs, uses the termios module and seems to do what you want (although it is not as compact as VT100 control codes):

def getpass(prompt="Password: "):
    import termios, sys
    fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
    old = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
    new = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
    new[3] = new[3] & ~termios.ECHO
    try:
        termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, new)
        passwd = raw_input(prompt)
        print '\r          \r',
    finally:
        termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, old)
    return passwd

p = getpass()

There are two tricky lines: one disables the echo, the other one erases your password prompt remaining at the first position of the line.