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2013-01-13 , 23:17
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One possible way is to use a QInputDialog via the PyQt bindings, but this requires an instance of QApplication (and thus an event loop). There is probably also a GTK equivalent. Another way is to use zenity http://library.gnome.org/users/zenity/stable/. It seems that the PyZenity module is not available for Maemo5, but you can use zenity via the os.system() method, e.g

Code:
import os

credentials = os.system('zenity --password --username').split('|')

if len(credentials) >= 2:
    username = credentials[0].strip()
    password = credentials[1].strip() // remove leading/trailing whitespace
else:
    print "Problem with username/password"
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