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Re: Single key press

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2011-12-05 22:27 -0800
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Subject Re: Single key press
From 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com>
Message-ID <mailman.3334.1323152877.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 1:49:55 PM UTC+8, Sergi Pasoev wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I wonder if it is realistic to get a single key press in Python
> without ncurses or
> any similar library. In single key press I mean something like j and k
> in Gnu less
> program, you press the key and and it is captured by the script without need to
> press enter afterwards

Sounds like the  fast key searching for a list in the DOS application in the  
old days. 

This is easy in GUI of just tens of items, but for thousands of items such 
as in a directory listing, some API is really slow.

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Single key press Sergi Pasoev <s.pasoev@gmail.com> - 2011-12-06 10:19 +0430
  Re: Single key press 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-05 22:27 -0800
  Re: Single key press 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-05 22:27 -0800
  Re: Single key press alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2011-12-06 00:39 -0800
  Re: Single key press Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-06 08:48 +0000
    Re: Single key press Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2011-12-06 10:28 +0100
  Re: Single key press Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-12-06 09:48 +0000
  Re: Single key press Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-06 15:22 +0000
    Re: Single key press 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-06 07:38 -0800

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