Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: > On 10/26/2016 8:33 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Maybe there should be some way to get the raw events from the PTY. > > PTY? Must be Linux-specific. Most beginners are not on Linux.
A PTY is an emulated console (<URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoterminal>). I don't know Windows but I would guess cmd.exe does something similar there. Also, I have no statistics on most beginning programmers operating systems. >> But what would be wrong in a GUI PTY API? No windowing, > > 'No windowing'? Python normally runs in a text widget in a window, > programmed to emulate a dumb terminal. Must be Windows-specific. > I never touched an Apple II and only briefly a Commodore 64, so either > never knew or have forgotten the Basic commands they had. But it should > be possible to emulate at least the text screen of either with > tkinter. Everything is possible for an individual application (like Python). The TTY/PTY interface enhancement I was entertaining would be a new API provided by the OS to all programs. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
