On 06/14/2015 11:23 PM, John McKenzie wrote: > Thank to the others who joined in and posted replies. > > Michael, your assumption is correct. To quote my original post, "and I > want this working on a Raspberry Pi." Doing a superficial look at curses > and getch it looks excessively complicated. I was under the impression it > was not multi-platform and Linux was excluded. Searching for getch and > raspberry pi on the web I see it is not and is available for Raspian. > > Worried about implementing it but I will consider it again. May spend > time reading about during my treatment tomorrow as the hospital has wifi > and Internet access and I am allowed to have my laptop there.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by not available on Linux. Curses provides the same API on all platforms it runs on and I know it can read keystrokes. Curses getch is certainly available on Linux. In fact, here's an example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10693256/how-to-accept-keypress-in-command-line-python Again, however, you probably can't just fire up your program from a startup script and have it run automatically, since stdin for a script is not going to be the tty. One idea would be to run your program from init as a getty on tty1 (the default tty). That would run as soon as it boots up. Though question for you. Why are you hooking the arcade buttons up to a kade USB device? Would not it be far simpler to hook the buttons directly to a GPIO pin and read them from python? You're already using GPIO pins to run the LEDs. Seems like the usb keyboard hack is unnecessary and it's making your task more difficult. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
