Pythons request libary: HttpBasicAuth and german umlaute (äüöß)

Question

I ran into a problem using the HttpBasicAuth with my password that contained ß. On a Windows mashine. Now I will not be able to chage my companies password rules so I want to display some kind of warning when a password is not supported. Or is there a solution to HttpBasicAuth struggeling with german umlaute?

Answer 1

So I found an solution. What I was using was password = getpass.getpass() to read in the password. Adding .encode("utf-8") fixed my problem.

So read in the password as:

password = getpass.getpass().encode("utf-8")