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Re: Monitor key presses in Python?

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On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 10:39:43 -0700, eamonnrea wrote:

> Is there a way to detect if the user presses a key in Python that works on
> most OS's? I've only seen 1 method, and that only works in Python 2.6 and
> less.

There's no "generic" solution to this.

At a minimum, there's getting "key presses" from a windowing system and
getting character input from a terminal or console. The two cases are
themselves quite different, and each case has differences between
operating systems.

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Monitor key presses in Python? eamonnrea@gmail.com - 2013-09-09 10:39 -0700
  Re: Monitor key presses in Python? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-09 18:19 +0000
  Re: Monitor key presses in Python? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-09-09 18:40 +0000
  Re: Monitor key presses in Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-09 23:37 +0000
  Re: Monitor key presses in Python? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-09-10 02:33 +0100
  Re: Monitor key presses in Python? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-09-09 20:43 -0600
  Re: Monitor key presses in Python? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-09-10 14:18 +0000
    Re: Monitor key presses in Python? eamonnrea@gmail.com - 2013-09-14 10:44 -0700
      Re: Monitor key presses in Python? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-14 14:03 -0400
        Re: Monitor key presses in Python? eamonnrea@gmail.com - 2013-09-14 11:10 -0700
          Re: Monitor key presses in Python? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-14 22:03 +0000
      Re: Monitor key presses in Python? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-14 11:42 -0700

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