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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: kbhit/getch python equivalent
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:10:02 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2013-04-22, alb <alessandro.basili@cern.ch> wrote:

> I'm looking for a kbhit/getch equivalent in python in order to be able
> to stop my inner loop in a controlled way (communication with external
> hardware is involved and breaking it abruptly may cause unwanted errors
> on the protocol).
>
> I'm programming on *nix systems, no need to be portable on Windows. I've
> seen the msvcrt module, but it looks like is for Windows only.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions?

Signals, ncurses, termios.

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