Prompt Method

prompt.py

def prompt(message, password=False):
   """
   Prompt the user for information.
   
   message  - what you're prompting the user for.
   password - whether you want a password (invokes getpass instead of vanilla raw_input()).

   returns the text returned by the user.
   """
   # We don't want a password.
   if password == False:
      # Print the prompt
      print "[\033[33m?\033[0m] " + message.__str__(), end=None
      # Grab the input
      reply = raw_input()
      # Return it
      return reply
   else:
      # We want a password.
      try:
         passwd = getpass.getpass("[\033[33m?\033[0m] " + message + " ")
      except getpass.GetPassWarning:
         print("Your password may be shown in clear text.  Make sure that nobody is behind you!")
      return passwd