Why doesn't Python include non-blocking keyboard input function?
Steve D'Aprano
steve+python at pearwood.info
Sat Oct 29 11:24:15 EDT 2016
On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 01:32 am, BartC wrote:
> (BTW the functionality of my 'readln a,b,c' differs from the above.
> Separators can be anything reasonable. When eol is encountered, it will
> read zeros. And errors are not handled: any non-numeric will yield zero.
Ah, in other words it is a toy, utterly unsuitable for serious use by anyone
who cares about data validity and error checking, only suitable for
teaching bad habits to beginners.
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Steve
“Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse.
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