Python - getch() and kbhit()

[Shlomi Fish]

thanks for the update, Shlomo.

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Shlomi,
> Thanks for your feedback - my reply below.
>
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 12:21:51 +0200
> Shlomi Fish <shlomif at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Shlomo,
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Shlomo Solomon
> > <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Since import msvcrt in Python is Windows specific, I adapted some
> > > code I found to provide kbhit() and getch() in Python under Linux.
> > >
> > > I'm attaching KBHIT.py which replaces msvcrt and a small program to
> > > demonstrate how to use it - KBHIT-test.py.
> > >
> > > The KBHIT.py documentation includes usage instructions and also a
> > > link to the code I borrowed and (I hope) improved.
> > >
> > >
> > thanks for your contribution.
> >
> > some comments:
> >
> > 1. What is the licence of the code? See
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-users@perl.org/msg04541.html .
>
> Note the following statement in the code (was already in the code I
> "borrowed" and I felt it would be wrong/dis-honest to change it):
> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
> published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
> License, or (at your option) any later version.
>
> >
> > 2. Please use a PyPI-like distribution format, see
> > https://github.com/ofek/hatch or
> > https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage .
>
> You're probably right, but since this was just something I hacked
> together to solve a specific problem I was having, I didn't really see
> the need to "formalize" it.
>
> >
> > 3. For more best practices, see
> > https://github.com/shlomif/Freenode-programming-channel-
> FAQ/blob/master/FAQ.mdwn#what-are-some-best-practices-in-
> programming-that-i-should-adopt
> > .
> >
> > 4. -test.py should be -example.py
> >
> >
> > >
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