[Python-ideas] get(w)ch, non-letter keys, and cross-platform non-blocking input.

random832 at fastmail.us random832 at fastmail.us
Sun Aug 4 00:58:22 CEST 2013


On Sat, Aug 3, 2013, at 1:23, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/2/2013 1:56 PM, random832 at fastmail.us 
> wrote:
> > The current behavior of getch and getwch on windows
> 
> Do you mean the curses module windows functions (which is mostly *nix 
> and not obviously on Windows) or the msvcrt module Windows functions? I 
> am a little confused because you talked about both 'windows' and 'unix' 
> as separate things.

I meant the msvcrt functions. When I talked about unix later in the
email I was talking about what is possible or not possible on unix, not
what is currently implemented in any particular library. Sorry for the
confusion.


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