Why doesn't Python include non-blocking keyboard input function?

[Random832]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016, at 02:39, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Not really. I think that lots of people think they need it, but
> once they write a little utility, they often realise that it's not
> that useful. That's just my opinion, and I'm one of those guys who
> wrote one:
> 
> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577977-get-single-keypress/?in=user-4172944

Non-blocking (which your example here doesn't even do) isn't the same
thing as character-at-a-time. It doesn't even imply it, technically -
you could want to do other stuff and occasionally check if the user has
entered a line, though *that* is even *more* involved on Windows because
it means you can't do it with msvcrt.kbhit.