On Nov 27, 2014, at 10:06 AM, John Sampson <jrs....@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > I have tried a module called readchar to make a Python 2.7 script detect > keystrokes in Windows 7. > I found it via a link from Stack Overflow. > When <ctrl>z is pressed its output is printed in the console as > u'\x1a’
Right, because that’s the ASCII value for Ctrl-Z. > While it appears in the console as above, if it is assigned to a > variable ( c = repr(readchar.readkey()) ) In this line, “readchar.readkey()” returns a string of length 1. It contains one character, with a value of 1A in hex. When you pass that through “repr”, you end up with a string of length 7: “u”, apostrophe, backslash, “x”, “1”, “a”, and apostrophe. Naturally, when you compare that to a string of length 1, it doesn’t match. > This does not make sense. What type of object is a keystroke? It’s a string containing one character. Wasn’t that obvious from your output? -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
