up arrow with raw_input

kevin at exstor.com kevin at exstor.com
Fri Oct 25 20:57:34 EDT 2002


Hello All,

  I've been trying to trap an up-arrow response when using raw_input() and its
not going well. I've tried doing an ord() on the response to get the ASCII
value, but a string of length three is produced by the up-arrow event (^[OA)
rather than the single character that ord() expects. I've also tried using GNU
readline. This only works from the python prompt (>>>) and not while waiting
for input using raw_input().
  Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Kevin





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