# Source code for questionary.prompts.password

    from typing import Any
    from typing import Optional

    from questionary import Style
    from questionary.constants import DEFAULT_QUESTION_PREFIX
    from questionary.prompts import text
    from questionary.question import Question

    def password(
        message: str,
        default: str = "",
        validate: Any = None,
        qmark: str = DEFAULT_QUESTION_PREFIX,
        style: Optional[Style] = None,
        **kwargs: Any,
    ) -> Question:
        """A text input where a user can enter a secret which won't be displayed on the CLI.

        This question type can be used to prompt the user for information
        that should not be shown in the command line. The typed text will be
        replaced with ``*``.

        Example:
            >>> import questionary
            >>> questionary.password("What's your secret?").ask()
            ? What's your secret? ********
            'secret42'

        .. image:: ../images/password.gif

        This is just a really basic example, the prompt can be customised using the
        parameters.

        Args:
            message: Question text.

            default: Default value will be returned if the user just hits
                     enter.

            validate: Require the entered value to pass a validation. The
                      value can not be submitted until the validator accepts
                      it (e.g. to check minimum password length).

                      This can either be a function accepting the input and
                      returning a boolean, or an class reference to a
                      subclass of the prompt toolkit Validator class.

            qmark: Question prefix displayed in front of the question.
                   By default this is a ``?``.

            style: A custom color and style for the question parts. You can
                   configure colors as well as font types for different elements.

        Returns:
            :class:`Question`: Question instance, ready to be prompted (using ``.ask()``).
        """

        return text.text(
            message, default, validate, qmark, style, is_password=True, **kwargs
        )