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.

Answer 2

Here's a small, extremely simple demo app hiding and fetching the password using Tkinter.

#Python 3.4 (For 2.7 change tkinter to Tkinter)

from tkinter import * 

def show():
    p = password.get() #get password from entry
    print(p)


app = Tk()   
password = StringVar() #Password variable
passEntry = Entry(app, textvariable=password, show='*').pack() 
submit = Button(app, text='Show Console',command=show).pack()      
app.mainloop() 

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

widget-name = Entry(parent,show="*")

You can also use a bullet symbol:

bullet = "\u2022" #specifies bullet character
widget-name = Entry(parent,show=bullet)#shows the character bullet

Answer 4

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.