Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Why {vintage} Basic beats Python

19 Feb 2017


      On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
...
:)
How to poll the keyboard for a keypress, non blocking.
Python <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Python>
#!/usr/bin/env python
 import __future__import sysif sys.version_info.major < 3:
    import thread as _threadelse:
    import _threadimport time
try:
    from msvcrt import getch  # try to import Windows versionexcept ImportError:
    def getch():   # define non-Windows version
        import tty, termios
        fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
        old_settings = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
        try:
            tty.setraw(sys.stdin.fileno())
            ch = sys.stdin.read(1)
        finally:
            termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, old_settings)
        return ch
char = None
 def keypress():
    global char
    char = getch()
_thread.start_new_thread(keypress, ())
 while True:
    if char is not None:
        print("Key pressed is " + char.decode('utf-8'))
        break
    print("Program is running")
    time.sleep(5)
PureBasic <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:PureBasic>
Returns a character string if a key is pressed during the call of Inkey().
It doesn't interrupt (halt) the program flow.
If special keys (non-ASCII) have to be handled, RawKey() should be called
after Inkey().
k$ = Inkey()
I use python for some little things here too
Never having tried this in python, so I had to look this up
not sure where that code which you found came from
I just looked on the python org website
And there appears to be a "getkey" library
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/getkey/0.6.5
eg.
from getkey import getkey, keys
key = getkey()
if key == keys.UP:
 ... # Handle the UP key
elif key == keys.DOWN:
 ... # Handle the DOWN key
else:
 # Handle other text characters
 buffer += key
 print(buffer)

Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Why {vintage} Basic beats Python

Dan Roganti