BartC wrote:
Run the code below and start pressing keys. On both of my Linuxes, I get escape sequences shown when I Insert, Delete, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down, Up, Down, Left, Right and most of the function keys; not just single ASCII codes.
That's probably because your terminal window is emulating some model of glass teletype and sending the same sequence of characters that a real terminal of that kind would send in response to those keys. You'll likely get different sequences depending on what terminal is being emulated.
How do they work; what magic do they use to get that key information, and why can't it be done outside of a GUI?
It doesn't have to be done in a GUI, but you'd have to deal with whatever raw keyboard input device the GUIs are built on. I'm not familiar with the details on Linux. Look into /dev/input if you're curious. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
