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

[D'Arcy Cain]

On 2016-10-27 03:05 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> When I used unix in the 1980s, the full screen ran csh until one started
> another full screen application.  MSDOS was the same. Every contemporary
> photo of modern Linux or Mac I have seen has a desktop with windows just
> like Windows.  Do people on Linux still commonly use full-screen, no
> window text editors like the one I had?  On Windows, there are full
> screen games, but I have never seen a full-screen, no-window text
> application.

You must lead a sheltered life then.

> Since modern screen are pixel graphics screens, rather than character

Not always.  I have many Unix systems that don't run X.  A GUI is not 
essential to running a useful Unix server.

You may be correct that Linux systems tend to run GUIs but even then it 
isn't mandatory.

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