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

[BartC]

On 28/10/2016 15:28, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-10-27, 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.
>
> He didn't say "when you CreateProcess()" or "when you system()", he
> said "when you exec".  Take a look at the exec man page:
>
>   http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/exec.3.html
>
> Note that the arguments are passed as arbitrary length arrays of
> character pointers.
>
>> This might just be one of those Unixisms that doesn't apply on all
>> platforms.
>
> By using the name of a Unix system call, one might think so.

Python is cross-platform, isn't it?

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bartc