John Doe jdoe@usenetlove.invalid wrote:
Tim Roberts timr probo.com wrote:
That exact code works perfectly for me. The function returns as
soon as I press the escape key. You are running this from a
console process, and not a GUI process, right?
No. I am running this from within Windows,
On Aug 17, 3:16 pm, Hans Mulder han...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On 17/08/11 10:03:00, peter wrote:
Is there an equivalent to msvcrt for Linux users? I haven't found
one, and have resorted to some very clumsy code which turns off
keyboard excho then reads stdin. Seems such an obvious thing to want
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:24:30 -0700, peter wrote:
This is very similar to my solution, which was to use stty turn off
keyboard echo, then repeatedly read sys.stdin.read(1) until a unique
keystroke had been defined. For example, the 'Insert' key seems to
return a sequence of four codes, namely
On 2011-08-17, John Doe jdoe@usenetlove.invalid wrote:
Context is lost when you quote only one level.
Not significantly.
I was not answering a question about my code. I was pointing out
the fact that my questioner's terminology is strange/corrupt.
Well, that's the thing. There was a
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Seebs usenet-nos...@seebs.net wrote:
Yes, even the common term command line is foreign to me. I do
some powerful stuff in Windows, without need for a command line.
So apparently you *do* know the term. Normally, to say that a term is
foreign to you is to say
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Is there an equivalent to msvcrt for Linux users? I haven't found
one, and have resorted to some very clumsy code which turns off
keyboard excho then reads stdin. Seems such an obvious thing to want
to do I am surprised there is not a standard library module for it. Or
have I missed someting
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:23 pm John Doe wrote:
You have every right to an opinion, Fuckturd.
I shouldn't need to say this to anyone over the age of four, but being
obnoxious to people trying to help does not encourage others to answer your
question. You don't win points for insulting people who
Welcome to my killfile.
*plonk*
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On 17/08/11 10:03:00, peter wrote:
Is there an equivalent to msvcrt for Linux users? I haven't found
one, and have resorted to some very clumsy code which turns off
keyboard excho then reads stdin. Seems such an obvious thing to want
to do I am surprised there is not a standard library module
Hans Mulder wrote:
Strictly speaking, os.system is deprecated and you should use
the equivalent invocation of subprocess.call:
Strictly speaking, os.system is *not* deprecated in either Python 2.x or
3.x.
Latest stable documentation for Python 2.7 and 3.2:
On 2011-08-17, peter peter.mos...@talk21.com wrote:
Is there an equivalent to msvcrt for Linux users? I haven't found
one, and have resorted to some very clumsy code which turns off
keyboard excho then reads stdin. Seems such an obvious thing to want
to do I am surprised there is not a
On 8/17/2011 12:33 PM, Seebs wrote:
On 2011-08-17, peterpeter.mos...@talk21.com wrote:
Is there an equivalent to msvcrt for Linux users? I haven't found
one, and have resorted to some very clumsy code which turns off
keyboard excho then reads stdin. Seems such an obvious thing to want
to do I
On 2011-08-17, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
I shouldn't need to say this to anyone over the age of four, but being
obnoxious to people trying to help does not encourage others to answer your
question. You don't win points for insulting people who are trying to
On 2011-08-17, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
The difference is between Hit enter to continue (which we can do in
portable Python) versus Hit any key to continue (which we cannot, and
which also leads to the joke about people searching for the 'any' key
;-).
And more importantly,
Seebs wrote:
Pathological narcissism is scary. If you ever find yourself going longer
than usual without being wrong, start checking your work more carefully. :)
+1 QOTW
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Terry Reedy wrote:
The difference is between Hit enter to continue (which we can do in
portable Python) versus Hit any key to continue (which we cannot, and
which also leads to the joke about people searching for the 'any' key
;-). The equivalent contrast for GUIs is Click OK to continue
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
The raw_input/input UI is well-designed for entering plain text data. It is
extremely poor as a command interface.
... (Imagine how awkward it would be to use a TUI mail client or
text editor where
def wait_for_keystroke():
char=0
while not char==0x1B:
char=msvcrt.getch()
That freezes the process. Am I using the right code for the escape
key, or doing anything else wrong?
Again, I know it could be my system. But I must find a way to do this
from within Windows. I use a keyboard
def wait_for_keystroke():
char=0
while not char==0x1B:
char=msvcrt.getch()
I tried using
while not char==chr(27):
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def wait_for_keystroke():
char=0
while not (char==chr(27) or char==chr(110)):
char=msvcrt.getch()
if char==0:
return
That freezes the process.
That means char=msvcrt.getch() is getting something?
Could it have something to do with the formatting of the character?
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John Doe jdoe@usenetlove.invalid wrote:
def wait_for_keystroke():
char=0
while not (char==chr(27) or char==chr(110)):
char=msvcrt.getch()
if char==0:
return
That freezes the process.
That exact code works perfectly for me. The function returns as soon as I
press the escape
Tim Roberts timr probo.com wrote:
John Doe jdoe@usenetlove.invalid wrote:
def wait_for_keystroke():
char=0 while not (char==chr(27) or char==chr(110)):
char=msvcrt.getch() if char==0:
return
That freezes the process.
That exact code works perfectly for me. The function
Okay... Looks like I need pyHook.
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:59 PM, John Doe jdoe@usenetlove.invalid wrote:
No. I am running this from within Windows, all sorts of Windows.
What does that mean? You seem very resistant to answering anyone's
questions about your code. Is your code run from the command line, or
does it have a GUI?
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On 2011-08-17, John Doe jdoe@usenetlove.invalid wrote:
Using does your code have a GUI produces zero search results.
Maybe that works better in some other language.
You shouldn't need a search engine to answer a question about your code.
If you do, it suggests that perhaps one or more of the
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On 08/08/2011 04:44 AM, John Doe wrote:
Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python pearwood.info wrote:
Also, are you using an IDE? If so, it could very well be
interfering with the keyboard buffer
I really don't know how to answer your question. I am using
Windows XP SP3. Komodo Edit 6
John Doe wrote:
My program does not need a prompt, it just needs to wait for any
key to be pressed before it continues. This is in Windows.
char=0
while not char:
char=msvcrt.getch()
That doesn't delay anything here.
Works perfectly for me. You don't need the while loop, since
Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python pearwood.info wrote:
Also, are you using an IDE? If so, it could very well be
interfering with the keyboard buffer
I really don't know how to answer your question. I am using
Windows XP SP3. Komodo Edit 6 for editing the *.py file. Dragon
Naturally
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