On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:04:01 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:36:32 +0000, Lie Ryan wrote: > >>>>> I want to write something that handle every char immediately after >>>>> its input. Then tehe user don't need to type [RETURN] each time. How >>>>> can I do this? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance. >> >> Don't you think that getting a one-character from console is something >> that many people do very often? > > No. > > I can't think of any modern apps that use one character commands like > that. One character plus a modifier (ctrl or alt generally) perhaps, but > even there, it's mostly used in GUI applications. > > >> Do you think that all these platform >> independent code should be moved to the interpreter level instead > > Absolutely not! There's no need for it to be given a keyword or special > syntax.
By "interpreter level", I meant python's VM including its standard libraries (i.e. anywhere but at end-programmer's level), I don't mean it should have a keyword or special syntax or anything of that sort. > But maybe there should be a standard library function for it. > > >> (and >> raises the appropriate error when the platform somehow cannot do >> unbuffered input)? So python developer could do something like this: >> >> raw_input(bufferring = 0) > > No. Leave raw_input as it is. A better interface would be: > > import input_services > c = input_services.get_char() That would be fine as well. > > Eventually the module could grow other services as well. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
