capturing ESC, page up/down in Python

[jordilin]

Is there any way to capture the keyboard events ESC, page up (next
page), page down (previous page) in Python?. I mean, how can I capture
if user presses one of those keys in a terminal based application? I
was thinking about pygame.key.get_ pressed from the pygame module, but
I don't feel really happy about importing pygame in a non related game
project.

[Tim Roberts]

Re: capturing ESC, page up/down in Python

jordilin <jordilin@gmail .comwrote:

>
>Is there any way to capture the keyboard events ESC, page up (next
>page), page down (previous page) in Python?. I mean, how can I capture
>if user presses one of those keys in a terminal based application? I
>was thinking about pygame.key.get_ pressed from the pygame module, but
>I don't feel really happy about importing pygame in a non related game
>project.

Are you talking about Windows or Unix? It matters.

In Windows, if you don't need a bunch of other features, you should check
out the WConio package. It has kbhit and getch functions that can do this.
--
Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

[Terry Reedy]

Re: capturing ESC, page up/down in Python

jordilin <jordilin@gmail .comwrote:

>Is there any way to capture the keyboard events ESC, page up (next
>page), page down (previous page) in Python?. I mean, how can I capture
>if user presses one of those keys in a terminal based application? I
>was thinking about pygame.key.get_ pressed from the pygame module, but
>I don't feel really happy about importing pygame in a non related game
>project.

Much of Pygame is a wrapper for the SDL library. Would you be happier
using that part if it had been called PySDL?