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

[Michael Torrie]

On 10/29/2016 06:16 PM, BartC wrote:
> An editor is either line-oriented or it isn't. Free-flowing English text 
> usually isn't, but most program code is. And a line-oriented editor 
> should have hard stops at the line ends. (IMO which apparently isn't 
> shared by anyone else on the planet.)

ViM appears to be line-oriented, which makes sense given its ed
heritage.  Cursor movement will only get you to the end of the line and
won't wrap around to the next line. So it seems that ViM works much as
you prefer, except that you probably don't like the two modes in ViM.