Dave:
Sorry for the late reply, but it sounds like it could help a few people here...
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
> Many people don't realize that you can turn on a better screen copy feature
> for the CMD window (DOS box) in Windows.
>
> I've given up Windows, and no longe
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 03:24:20PM -0700, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
> On 6 May 2015 at 14:08, Dave Angel wrote:
>
> > I don't know why you would be expecting to get a utf-8 character for the
> > second byte of a function key code. It's an entirely arbitrary byte
> > sequence, and not equiva
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 09:30:12PM -0700, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
> On 5 May 2015 at 18:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> > https://code.activestate.com/recipes/577977-get-single-keypress/
>
>
> That only has a stub for Linux,
Er, look again, more closely.
I happen to know the author ver
On 6 May 2015 at 14:08, Dave Angel wrote:
> I don't know why you would be expecting to get a utf-8 character for the
> second byte of a function key code. It's an entirely arbitrary byte
> sequence, and not equivalent to anything in Unicode, encoded or not
I just didn't think of accounting for
On 05/06/2015 01:41 PM, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
from msvcrt import *
while True:
if kbhit():
key = getch()
if key == b'\xe0' or key == b'\000':
print('special key follows')
key = getch()
print(str(key, encoding='utf-8')) #got
On 6 May 2015 at 10:41, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP
wrote:
> I went a further step from the recipes linked to above and got here
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/readchar
>
>
> I think that's the one that failed for me
>
Addendum. That only failed in python 3.4. It worked fine in python 2.7 -
but I r
On 5 May 2015 at 21:51, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 06/05/2015 05:30, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
>
>> On 5 May 2015 at 18:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> https://code.activestate.com/recipes/577977-get-single-keypress/
>>>
>>
>>
>> That only has a stub for Linux, but I found one that does b
On 05/06/2015 12:02 AM, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
actually worked in windows instead of using their awful screen
copy. What a surprise:
Many people don't realize that you can turn on a better screen copy
feature for the CMD window (DOS box) in Windows.
I've given up Windows, and no lon
On 2015-05-05 15:36, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 05/05/15 22:30, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
Can python detect a keypress?
The following works for my (on my Ubuntu platform) system
although probably won't be of much use on a Redmond OS.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# file: 'readchar.py'
"""
Provides re
On 06/05/2015 00:47, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
On 5 May 2015 at 15:36, Alan Gauld wrote:
Can python detect a keypress?
That sounds simple but is actually quite tricky
since it's terminal dependent.
An ancillary question. I found a readchar that purports to install in py2
and 3 but
On 06/05/2015 05:30, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
On 5 May 2015 at 18:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
https://code.activestate.com/recipes/577977-get-single-keypress/
That only has a stub for Linux, but I found one that does both. Although,
alas, no IOS version:
http://code.activestate.com/r
On 5 May 2015 at 18:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> https://code.activestate.com/recipes/577977-get-single-keypress/
That only has a stub for Linux, but I found one that does both. Although,
alas, no IOS version:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/134892-getch-like-unbuffered-character-reading-
On 5 May 2015 at 18:35, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Is this under Linux or another Unix? If so, > only redirects stdout, not
> stderr, so you need:
>
> python3 setup.py 2> errors.txt
>
> to capture the errors.
>
> I have no idea if Windows works the same way.
>
Damn, that actually worked in windows
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:47:24PM -0700, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
> An ancillary question. I found a readchar that purports to install in py2
> and 3 but fails in 3. The errors (something from the encodings module)
> won't copy from the console, so I thought I could redirect them like so:
>
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:30:41PM -0700, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
> Can python detect a keypress? I've looked all over and can't find it. I
> don't mean input('blah') and have to press Enter - just detect it directly
> like Javascript does. All I find are references using msvcrt, which is
>
On 5 May 2015 at 16:47, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP
wrote:
> But that didn't work. How can I get a printout of setup errors so I can
> post them?
I remembered how to copy the DOS console. Here is the error. Error wasn't
in setup.py so that wouldn't have worked anyway.
C:\Python34\Lib\site-packages
On 5 May 2015 at 15:36, Alan Gauld wrote:
> Can python detect a keypress?
>>
>
> That sounds simple but is actually quite tricky
> since it's terminal dependent.
An ancillary question. I found a readchar that purports to install in py2
and 3 but fails in 3. The errors (something from the encodi
On 05/05/15 22:30, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
Can python detect a keypress?
That sounds simple but is actually quite tricky
since it's terminal dependent.
like Javascript does. All I find are references using msvcrt, which is
Msoft specific, or using tkinter - but I don't want a whacking
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