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Re: non-blocking getkey?

From Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@makes.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: non-blocking getkey?
Date 2015-11-18 16:13 +0200
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Ulli Horlacher writes:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> >> The limitation is that this will not work if any of the file names
>> >> contain astral (non-BMP) chars because tk cannot handle such
>> >> characters.
>> > 
>> > What are "astral chars"?
>> 
>> Unicode characters beyond U+FFFF.
>
> I see, for very exotic character sets, like Klingon, etc :-)
> In my case, I can simple ignore them.

Better test how your user interface behaves when a user copy-pastes one
of those characters into it. If it merely garbles the character somehow,
you may be able to ignore the problem, but if it promptly shuts down
your whole application and loses some unfinished work, the user may not
be happy.

Klingon may not be that widely spoken, but all manner of little picture
characters seem popular. Wasn't one just chosen to be the Word Of The
Year? And when it's the underlying GUI library that crashes, it's too
late for your program to sanitize the input.

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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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