[nylug-workshop] Input strategies

[Peter C. Norton]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:29:54AM -0500, Dan Crosta wrote:
> Great! Thanks Peter and anyone else who helped out with this patch...  
> I've imported it to r146, and it seems to be working well. There seem  
> to still be a few keys which either curses doesn't properly wrangle  
> or that the python curses module doesn't have a name for  
> (curses.KEY_<foo>), surprisingly the Tab, Return and Escape keys. But  
> the remainder of the keyboard seems to be well-supported in a fairly  
> cross-platform way and well more readable than the old version, thanks!

I'm going to guess that's because they're part of the standard ASCII
key value definitions.

I just took a look, and if you import curses, curses.ascii, then you
can test to see if a key is equal to curses.ascii.ESC,
curses.ascii.TAB, or curses.ascii.LF.

-Peter

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