[Tutor] Linux library for getch() and kbhit()?

[Alan Gauld]

"Bill Allen" <wallenpb at gmail.com> wrote

>I have found that for the Windows build of Python the msvcrt library
> provides getch() and kbhit() functions.   Is there a library 
> available for
> the Linux Python build that provides the same or similar functions?

curses.

Take a look at the event handling topic in my tutor for examples
comparing msvcrt and curses.

I'm not sure if curses provides a kbhit() equivalent but you can
usually simulate the effect by using a combination of getch()
and ungetch() - not pretty but it works.

HTH,

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Alan Gauld
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