On 05/06/2015 01:41 PM, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
from msvcrt import *
while True:
if kbhit():
key = getch()
if key == b'\xe0' or key == b'\000':
print('special key follows')
key = getch()
print(str(key, encoding='utf-8')) #got rid of this decode after
a function key error
else:
print('The key is: ', str(key, encoding='utf-8'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "keyget.py", line 9, in <module>
print(str(key, encoding='utf-8'))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x85 in position 0:
invalid start byte
I don't know why you would be expecting to get a utf-8 character for the
second byte of a function key code. It's an entirely arbitrary byte
sequence, and not equivalent to anything in Unicode, encoded or not.
--
DaveA
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