Hi! Thanks, Michael, for your quick - and heplful - reply.
13.01.2013 18:46, Michael Torrie wrote:
You're wrong. curses does offer a direct solution to this. Check the docs. Also here's a nice intro document for Python 3: http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/curses.html
You are right :) The docs tell us (I somehow missed this when reading the doc last time):
"It’s possible to change this behavior with the method nodelay(). After nodelay(1), getch() for the window becomes non-blocking and returns curses.ERR (a value of -1) when no input is ready. There’s also a halfdelay() function, which can be used to (in effect) set a timer on each getch(); if no input becomes available within a specified delay (measured in tenths of a second), curses raises an exception."
This is actually funny: if you google for e.g. "capture keystrokes python", you will find masses of suggestions, none of them having this simple and elegant (i.e. python-like :) ) solution included.
Now it works and my problem is solved. Thank you! Kind regards, Kimmo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
