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

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.