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Re: non-blocking getkey?

From Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: non-blocking getkey?
Date 2015-11-18 10:14 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Am 18.11.15 um 09:39 schrieb Ulli Horlacher:
> In my program (for python 2.7) the user must enter file names with
> mouse copy+paste. I use:
>
> while True:
>    file = raw_input(prompt)
>    if file == '': break
>    files.append(file)
>
> How can I implement such a get_paste() function?
> I need a non-blocking getkey() function.
> It must work on Windows and Linux.

Non-blocking I/O from the commandline is OS specific. There are 
different solutions, and it's usually hacky (stty on Linux, Console API 
on Windows)

Why do you not use a proper GUI toolkit to do this? It is 
straight-forward to accept keystrokes, copy/paste and drag'n'drop with 
most toolkits. Especially if you target Windows users, I think they 
would be more than happy to get a GUI app then to open a terminal window 
and paste something there. The standard terminal on Windows is very 
ugly, can't resize the width, and pasting works only if you right-click 
-> paste.

	Christian

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non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-18 08:39 +0000
  Re: non-blocking getkey? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-11-18 10:14 +0100
    Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-18 10:39 +0000
      Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-18 11:01 +0000
        Re: non-blocking getkey? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-11-18 12:17 +0100
        Re: non-blocking getkey? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-18 07:26 -0500
          Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-18 13:06 +0000
            Re: non-blocking getkey? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 00:24 +1100
              Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-18 13:57 +0000
            Re: non-blocking getkey? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-19 00:38 +1100
              Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-18 13:51 +0000
                Re: non-blocking getkey? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 01:01 +1100
                Re: non-blocking getkey? Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@makes.invalid> - 2015-11-18 16:13 +0200
        Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-18 16:50 +0000
          Re: non-blocking getkey? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-18 12:55 -0500
            Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-19 15:48 +0000
              Re: non-blocking getkey? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 09:31 -0700
              Re: non-blocking getkey? eryksun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 02:43 -0600
                Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-23 17:01 +0000
                askopenfilename() (was: Re: non-blocking getkey?) Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-28 10:29 +0000
                Re: askopenfilename() Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-11-28 12:45 +0100
                Re: askopenfilename() Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-28 12:48 +0000
                Re: askopenfilename() Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-11-28 14:34 +0100
                Re: askopenfilename() Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-28 16:45 +0000
                Re: askopenfilename() Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-11-28 17:02 +0100
                Re: askopenfilename() Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-28 16:05 +0000
        Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-10 08:28 +0000
          Re: non-blocking getkey? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-12-10 09:54 +0100
            Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-10 10:26 +0000
          Re: non-blocking getkey? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-12-10 09:57 +0100
            Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-10 10:40 +0000
          Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-10 15:52 +0000
    Re: non-blocking getkey? eryksun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 12:24 -0600

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