Why doesn't Python include non-blocking keyboard input function?
D'Arcy Cain
darcy at vex.net
Thu Oct 27 03:56:14 EDT 2016
On 2016-10-27 03:05 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> When I used unix in the 1980s, the full screen ran csh until one started
> another full screen application. MSDOS was the same. Every contemporary
> photo of modern Linux or Mac I have seen has a desktop with windows just
> like Windows. Do people on Linux still commonly use full-screen, no
> window text editors like the one I had? On Windows, there are full
> screen games, but I have never seen a full-screen, no-window text
> application.
You must lead a sheltered life then.
> Since modern screen are pixel graphics screens, rather than character
Not always. I have many Unix systems that don't run X. A GUI is not
essential to running a useful Unix server.
You may be correct that Linux systems tend to run GUIs but even then it
isn't mandatory.
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