On 5/25/19, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Windows, the msvcrt module exposes getch: > https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/msvcrt.html#msvcrt.getch
I suggest using msvcrt.getwch instead of msvcrt.getch. Both functions are limited to the basic multilingual plane (BMP, i.e. U+0000 -- U+FFFF), but getch is additionally limited to the console input codepage. In Windows, getpass.getpass is based on msvcrt.getwch and msvcrt.putwch. If you use getch and need the full BMP range, you can temporarily change the console input codepage to UTF-8 (65001). It's a multibyte encoding (i.e. 1-3 bytes per BMP code), so the initial getch call has to be followed by a loop that calls it again while the sequence can't be decoded and kbhit() is true. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
