Update tweepyshell to prompt for password via getpass() if not provided at commandline.

For those who aren't comfortable running processes which require
passwords from the command line, provide an alternative by asking for
the password with the getpass function.

Signed-off-by: Joshua <jroesslein@gmail.com>

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 2a5376d8fc5aebd340ef4fc3f8f58d1766aa7da1..7f0b81103df4d9347d77910358ffce38e47851e8 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ during upgrade will be listed here.
           s.filter(track=['pizza']) # synch./blocking mode
     - Listener now has a "on_data" method which can be overridden to manually handle the
         raw stream data.
++ tweepyshell
+    - allow using getpass for more secure password collection
+      new usage: tweepyshell <username> [password] <-- optional now
 
 1.2 -> 1.3 [Current release]
 =====================

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index c208e630636a3c204e7b4d8a9dd66c64487ad3a2..15939744fe340354e55195fd6cf1f453a40f2510 100644 (file)
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -8,3 +8,5 @@ Pascal Jürgens
     - Streaming API fixes
 Fredrik Lundh
     - html unescape (http://effbot.org/zone/re-sub.htm#unescape-html)
+Kumar Appaiah
+    - tweepyshell patch

diff --git a/tweepyshell b/tweepyshell
index 56127d3916b567d45a1f662030a7f408cc35b10c..d47132cab0f3e31c89e3efee5a7fbfb3af3c41d0 100755 (executable)
--- a/tweepyshell
+++ b/tweepyshell
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import sys
 import code
 import tweepy
 from tweepy import API, BasicAuthHandler
+from getpass import getpass
 
 """Launch an interactive shell ready for Tweepy usage
 
@@ -14,11 +15,18 @@ It imports tweepy and creates an authenticated API instance (api)
 using the credentials provided.
 """
 
-if len(sys.argv) != 3:
-    print 'Usage: tweepyshell <username> <password>'
+username = None
+password = None
+
+if len(sys.argv) == 2:
+    username, password = sys.argv[1], getpass()
+elif len(sys.argv) == 3:
+    username, password = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]
+else:
+    print 'Usage: tweepyshell <username> [password]'
     exit(1)
 
-api = API(BasicAuthHandler(username=sys.argv[1], password=sys.argv[2]))
+api = API(BasicAuthHandler(username=username, password=password))
 
 code.interact('<Tweepy shell>', local={'tweepy': tweepy, 'api': api})