How to read password with echo "*" in Python console program?

I'm writing a console program with Python under Windows.
The user need to login to use the program, when he input his password, I'd like they to be echoed as "*", while I can get what the user input.
I found in the standard library a module called getpass, but it will not echo anything when you input(linux like).
Thanks.

The getpass module is written in Python. You could easily modify it to do this. In fact, here is a modified version of getpass.win_getpass() that you could just paste into your code:

import sys

def win_getpass(prompt='Password: ', stream=None):
    """Prompt for password with echo off, using Windows getch()."""
    import msvcrt
    for c in prompt:
        msvcrt.putch(c)
    pw = ""
    while 1:
        c = msvcrt.getch()
        if c == '\r' or c == '\n':
            break
        if c == '\003':
            raise KeyboardInterrupt
        if c == '\b':
            pw = pw[:-1]
            msvcrt.putch('\b')
        else:
            pw = pw + c
            msvcrt.putch("*")
    msvcrt.putch('\r')
    msvcrt.putch('\n')
    return pw

You might want to reconsider this, however. The Linux way is better; even just knowing the number of characters in a password is a significant hint to someone who wants to crack it.