On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:49 AM, eShopping <etrade.griffi...@dsl.pipex.com>wrote:
> <snip> > Hm .....does this mean we are snookered on Win XP? Well, strictly using python anyway. I'm not sure precisely how the ctypes module works, but it's a fairly simple amount of code in assembly to push characters into the keyboard buffer. I presume there may be some builtins in C that would allow you to do the same thing. Of course the real issue is making sure that the FORTRAN program actually is the program reading the buffer, which is probably the problem with your python program. I don't know if it makes a difference, but I know in assembly you can use an interrupt to read a character from stdin *or* you can use an interrupt to read a character from the keyboard buffer. If these lower level calls are different enough (i.e. a MS interrupt to read from stdin does some funky system-wide Windows stuff, and the keyboard call just reads direct from the buffer - so it's lower level than stdin) then FORTRAN might simply be reading straight from the buffer. However, I don't quite have that much knowledge, although I could presumably write up a few programs to test my theory, and if I have time today I'll have to try that. -Wayne -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t. - Primo Levi
_______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
