Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: > > > > On 11 Dec 2022, at 18:50, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > > > My solution in the end was copied from one I found that was much > > simpler and straightforward than most. I meant to post this earlier > > but it got lost somewhere:- > > > > import sys, termios, tty > > # > > # > > # Read a single character from teminal, specifically for 'Y/N' > > # > > fdInput = sys.stdin.fileno() > > termAttr = termios.tcgetattr(0) > > # > > # > > # Get a single character, setcbreak rather than setraw meands CTRL/C > > etc. still work > > # > > def getch(): > > sys.stdout.flush() > > tty.setcbreak(fdInput) > > ch = sys.stdin.buffer.raw.read(1).decode(sys.stdin.encoding) > > Will not work for uncode code points above 255. > > This is what happened when I typed € key: > > :>>> a.getch() > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "/private/var/folders/ll/08dwwqkx6v9bcd15sh06x14w0000gn/T/a.py", line > 15, in getch > ch = sys.stdin.buffer.raw.read(1).decode(sys.stdin.encoding) > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 0: > unexpected end of data > Since it's just for me to use the above doesn't worry me! :-) I'd have to try quite hard to enter a multi-byte character from my keyboard so it's very unlikely to happen by mistake.
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