On 03/16/2019 10:08 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I don't know about svn specifically, but in the past it was typical > for programs requiring passwords and assuming interactive usage to > issue the password prompt to and read the password from /dev/tty, > rather than stdin/stdout. That allowed their use in a pipeline > without contaminating the pipe's data with the password prompt and > password. In "normal" usage /dev/tty and stdin/stdout/stderr are all > the same device, but when used via a library like subprocess, you > couldn't provide the password via stdin.
There's a python library (Linux and Unix only I think) called pexpect[1] that can drive programs that expect a pty for taking password input. [1] https://pypi.org/project/pexpect/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
