Obfuscate strings in Python

Question

I have a password string that must be passed to a method. Everything works fine but I don\'t feel comfortable storing the password in clear text. Is there a way to obfuscate

Answer 1

Many password-accepting protocols and facilities have a way to specify a keyfile rather than a password. That strategy will probably work here; rather than hard-coding a password, hard-code a filename (or better yet, make it a parameter!). You could even go as far as SSH and refuse to load keyfiles that aren't (1) owned by the current user (2) only readable by that user.