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Raju58
Raju58

Reputation: 121

Python Module for Non-canonical Keyboard Input Processing

I have a Python-3 application that has an interactive command-line interface. Now I would like to add non-canonical keyboard input functionality to this application. I would like it to behave much like how Python interpreter handles its keyboard inputs - for example, keys like up-arrow and down-arrow could scroll command histories and other control keys could move the cursor to beginning/end of line, etc.

I had a cursory glance of getkey and keyboard modules, but what is the best (and easiest) Python 3 module that I could use for this feature?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 209

Answers (1)

furas
furas

Reputation: 142631

There are special modules to create interactive command line.

They can use special keys to show history, edit line, auto suggestions.

There is standard module cmd which should have this functionality.

See also extended cmd2

Probably the most popular is Python Prompt Toolkit. Probably even IPython uses it.

See Gallery, basic tutorila and examples with PtPython

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Probably most of them use standard modul readline - so maybe you will need this for your project.

Other

BTW: 4 Python libraries for building great command-line user interfaces

Upvotes: 2

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