Increasing the diversity of people who write Python

[Tim Golden]

On 28/11/2017 08:41, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 27 November 2017 at 19:05, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 27 November 2017 at 18:13, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> If you have a Windows key, you can assign it to be
>>>> the Compose key.
>>>
>>> Would this be true on a machine running Windows? My work environment
>>> has me developing on Linux, with a Windows desktop. It's not clear to
>>> me that any sort of xmodmap shennanigans would work. Won't Windows
>>> itself always gobble up that key?
>>
>> Programs can access the Windows key. IIRC, there is a utility that
>> provides compose-key functionality on Windows. I can't recall the name
>> right now and it's on my other PC, not this one, but I'll try to
>> remember to post the name tomorrow...
> 
> WinCompose was the program - https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

And, if you wanted a Python-y solution:

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/catch_system_wide_hotkeys.html

TJG