User input masks - Access Style

[flebber]

On Jan 1, 11:13 am, Tim Harig <user... at ilthio.net> wrote:
> On 2010-12-31, flebber <flebber.c... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 28 2010, 12:21 am, Adam Tauno Williams <awill... at whitemice.org>
> > wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 20:37 -0800, flebber wrote:
> >> > Is there anyay to use input masks in python? Similar to the function
> >> > found in access where a users input is limited to a type, length and
> >> > format.
>
> >> <http://faq.pygtk.org/index.py?file=faq14.022.htp&req=show>
>
> >> Typically this is handled by a callback on a keypress event.
>
> > Regarding 137 of the re module, relating to the code above.
>
> 137? I am not sure what you are referencing?
>
> > EDIT: I just needed to use raw_input rather than input to stop this
> > input error.
>
> Sorry, I used input() because that is what you had used in your example
> and it worked for my system.  Normally, I would have used window.getstr()
> from the curses module, or whatever the platform equivilant is, for
> getting line buffered input.

137 is the line number in the re module which refernces the match
string. In this example the timeinput.