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Re: Processing user input as it's entered

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Date 2013-03-26 14:41 +0000
Subject Re: Processing user input as it's entered
From Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
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On 26 March 2013 10:07, Sven <svenito@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way (ideally cross platform but a *nix OS solution would be
> great) to process user input as they type?
> What I aim to achieve is to count the number of characters a user has
> entered and display it while they are typing. The entered text will also
> need to be captured once the user has finished typing.
>
> This is a gui-less CLI tool for python 2.7
>
> I've seen some information on tty.setraw but I'm not sure how you'd go about
> wiring that up.

Can you use curses (http://docs.python.org/2/library/curses.html)

-- 
Arnaud

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Re: Processing user input as it's entered Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2013-03-26 14:41 +0000

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