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

[BartC]

On 28/10/2016 01:08, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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...

OK. What comes out of this is that single- or multi-string ways passing 
the contents of a line of input are both workable.

So perhaps my way of allowing more general line-input to be read an 
item-at-a-time instead of as a single string isn't that off-the-wall either.

-- 
Bartc