How to create a password entry field using Tkinter

Question

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

Answer 1

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.