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

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 10:45 AM, BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> On 27/10/2016 23:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> When
>> you exec to a process, you provide multiple arguments, not a single
>> combined string.
>
>
> Really, there could be dozens of arguments? Windows' CreateProcess() (if
> that's the same thing) has ten of which one is the command-line as a single
> string, while C's system() just has one.

system() passes its argument through to the shell for parsing. In the
same way, Python's Popen constructor can either take a list of
strings, or a single string.

> This might just be one of those Unixisms that doesn't apply on all
> platforms.

Or maybe the single-string form is a Windowsism that doesn't apply on
any other platforms. Let me go dig up my OS/2 Assembly Language
Programming Reference...

ChrisA