[Tutor] Looking for suggestions for improving chessTimer.py code

[Dick Moores]

At 05:03 AM 10/29/2007, bhaaluu wrote:
>On 10/29/07, Dick Moores <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote:
> > Seems I should clarify that. I'm not looking for a script that echoes
> > the key pressed. So I'll change that last line to "Could you show a
> > script using it that, say, prints "Hello" if  '1' is pressed and
> > "Bye" if '2' is, AND uses
> > <http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/134892>
> > Dick
>
># tty-example-2.py
># Tue Oct 19 09:07:14 CEST 1999
># Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
># http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-October/014151.html
>import sys
>
>try:
>    # windows or dos
>    import msvcrt
>    getkey = msvcrt.getch
>except ImportError:
>    # assume unix
>    import tty, termios
>
>    print dir(termios)
>
>    def getkey():
>        file = sys.stdin.fileno()
>        mode = termios.tcgetattr(file)
>        try:
>            tty.setraw(file, termios.TCSANOW)
>            ch = sys.stdin.read(1)
>        finally:
>            termios.tcsetattr(file, termios.TCSANOW, mode)
>        return ch
>
>print "press 'q/p/r/s' to quit..."
>
>while 1:
>    ch = getkey()
>    if ch == "q":
>        break
>    elif ch == "1":
>        print "Hello",
>    elif ch == "2":
>        print "Bye",
>    print ch,
>
>print
>
>
>Like that?

Thanks! I modified it slightly: 
<http://www.rcblue.com/Python/toTestOnUnix.py>. Could a unix/linux 
user see if it works?

Dick