Re: [pygame] Getting input from command line

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fiona Burrows wrote:
> Michael wrote:
> > On Monday 01 December 2008 12:57:15 Fiona Burrows wrote:
> >   
> > > I know this isn't directly related to PyGame but I figured there were
> > > worse places to ask a question like this
> > >     
> >
> > This page is your friend:
> >
> > http://openbookproject.net/py4fun/lode/lode.html#auto2
> >
> > In fact the entire site is quite fun...
> >
> >    http://openbookproject.net/py4fun/
> >
> > ... but with a name like that it would be.
> >
> > Specifically this file shows you what you need to do:
> > http://openbookproject.net//py4fun/lode/ttyLinux.py
> >
> > Specifically you have to change the console mode to spit out characters at
> > a time, you can then play with them and when your program exits change it
> > back again.
> >
> >
> > Michael.
> >   
> That looks extremely useful, thank you! Unfortunately it's Unix-like 
> only. (At least that's what the Python docs say about termios.)
> Is there a Windows alternative that you know of? I could just check 
> what the OS is and use the specific routines for the platform.
>
> Thanks!
> Fiona
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The msvcrt module has Windows console I/O routines, including kbhit() 
(Section 36.2.2 in the Python 2.5 docs). I don't know of any platform 
independent console routines in Python.

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Lenard Lindstrom
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