BartC <b...@freeuk.com>: > On 28/10/2016 10:22, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: >> So "less" in C uses ncurses. You can do the same in Python, "import >> curses" - instead of fiddling with terminal escape characters you >> leave that to a library, just like less does it. > > As I commented further up the thread, I tried 'import curses' in > Windows and it said it couldn't find the module.
I can't comment on Windows. I'm only talking about Linux. Christian was talking about OSX. As for why there isn't a facility that would do it on all platforms, that question is akin to: Oh, why can't everybody just speak English? > If you intend this keyboard handling to be a very minor part of a > larger application, you don't want it falling over the first time > someone tries to use it. Didn't someone in this thread already mention a way to do it in Windows? Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
