keyboard "interrupt"

[John Fisher]

Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel at googlemail.com> wrote:

> John Fisher wrote:
> > Hi Group,
> 
> Hi John
> 
> > I have been absent a while, mainly because I have been getting better at
> > figuring out my own Python problems. But not this one...
> >
> > I have a timed loop performing certain tasks until a total period of
> > time has elapsed. I would like to be able to interrupt the loop or set
> > various flags during execution via keyboard input. raw_input seems to
> > just stop everything cold. I want the ability to just sacn the keyboard
> > buffer and see if something is there, then proceed normally in the loop
> > if there is no input in the buffer. Make sense? Totally easy? Let me
> > know...
> 
> If you are on a UNIX platform, you can use the curses module.
> 
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-curses.html
> 
> There is a link there to a tutorial, but it seems to be broken.  A
> quick search finds it there:
> 
> http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/curses/
> 
> HTH
> 
> --
> Arnaud
Thanks for your reply Arnaud. I am using an Intel mac, running Leopard
10.5.2, so that's Posix I warrant. I will check this out.

JF