On 2005-11-09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there some command in python so that I can read a key's input and > then use a gotoxy() function to move the cursor on screen? e.g.: > (psuedo-code)
You can use curses, but that may be more trouble than it's worth. If you don't mind limiting your program to an ANSI-type terminals (vt100, xterm, rxvt, linux, putty, etc....), then you can just use the codes to position the cursor: ESC = '\033' CSI = ESC + "[" def printat(row,col,arg=""): sys.stdout.write( CSI + str(row) + ";" + str(col) + 'H' + str(arg)) > When the right arrow is pushed, cursor gotoxy(x+1,y) To read a single keystroke, see Claudio Grondi's post in the thread "python without OO" from last January. Function and cursor keys return more than a single character, so more work is required to decode them. The principle is outlined in <http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9920/ur0511a/ur0511a.html>; the code there is for the shell, but translating them to python should be straightforward. I'll probably do it myself when I have the time or the motivation. -- Chris F.A. Johnson | Author: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org> | Shell Scripting Recipes: Any code in this post is released | A Problem-Solution Approach, under the GNU General Public Licence | 2005, Apress -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list