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[Python-ideas] Remove tty module

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Wed Jul 24 11:01:42 CEST 2013 
On 24.07.2013 10:43, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/74fd1959cf44/Lib/tty.py
> 
> tty module is cryptic. The low level interface it is exposed can be
> covered by appropriate recipes in termios module documentation. You
> can't understand tty without understanding termios. You also can't
> understand tty without being a Unix guru -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTY I doubt that raw mode function (which
> is 50% of this stuff) is really used by anyone.
> 
> In ideal world the tty should be substituted with interface with less
> cryptic terminology replacing cbreak mode, cooked mode, raw mode with
> user oriented concepts. Otherwise this functionality is already
> covered by termios interface.

Better references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_terminal_interface
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooked_mode

cbreak and raw modes are needed for e.g. games or editors that
need low-level access to the keyboard.

For a user oriented TTY interface, have a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses and
http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/curses.html

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