Hi,
I'm sorry, I don't seem to have done a very good job at explaining
the situation. I'll try again:
'getch()' is a low-level function provided on Windows to capture a
single character of input from a user, /without echoing it to the
screen/. As far as I can tell there's no other way of
Whatever it is that you need 'getch' to do, can't you incorporate it
first in an extension module you bundle with your application or
library, rather than using the (broken?) wrapper in the msvcrt module?
Jeff
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Sorry all,
It seems that the list mods have finally released a duplicate
message that I wrote last week when I wasn't subscribed to the list.
Please ignore the message below if you have read the previous copy
already.
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On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 09:43 +1200, Darryl Dixon wrote:
Hi,
I'm
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005, Darryl Dixon wrote:
Is it worth sending in a patch to the sourceforge patch-tracker
implementing this? Is it OK for msvcrt_getch to return Unicode when
appropriate?
Let's put it this way: you probably won't get much in the way of forward
motion on this unless you do
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Python on Windows. The Python interface to this function is in the C
code in msvcrtmodule.c, which has a (very thin) wrapper around the raw
OS system call.
I think Fredrik made two points in this regard. 1) The current
Hi,
I'm sorry, I don't seem to have done a very good job at explaining
the situation. I'll try again:
'getch()' is a low-level function provided on Windows to capture a
single character of input from a user, /without echoing it to the
screen/. As far as I can tell there's no other way of
Hi all,
Please CC: me on any replies as I am not subscribed to this list. I
am the lead maintainer for the ntlmaps project
(http://ntlmaps.sourceforge.net). Recently a bugreport logged against
ntlmaps has brought an issue to my attention (see:
Darryl Dixon wrote:
Microsoft support capturing extended characters via _getch, but it requires
making a
second call to getch() if one of the 'magic' returns is encountered in the
first call (0x00
or 0xE0).
so why not do that in your python code?
The relevant chunk of code in Python
