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

[Dan Roganti]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at 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)