poezio/src/keyboard.py

# Copyright 2010 Le Coz Florent <louizatakk@fedoraproject.org>
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"""
Functions to interact with the keyboard
Mainly, read keys entered and return a string (most
of the time ONE char, but may be longer if it's a keyboard
shortcut, like ^A, M-a or KEY_RESIZE)
"""

def get_next_byte(s):
    """
    Read the next byte of the utf-8 char
    ncurses seems to return a string of the byte
    encoded in latin-1. So what we get is NOT what we typed
    unless we do the conversion…
    """
    try:
        c = s.getkey()
    except:
        return (None, "KEY_RESIZE")
    if len(c) >= 4:
        return (None, c)
    return (ord(c), c.encode('latin-1')) # returns a number and a bytes object

def read_char(s):
    """
    Read one utf-8 char
    see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Description
    """
    (first, char) = get_next_byte(s)
    if first == None: # Keyboard special, like KEY_HOME etc
        return char
    if first == 127 or first == 8:
        return "KEY_BACKSPACE"
    if first < 127:  # ASCII char on one byte
        if first <= 26:         # transform Ctrl+* keys
            return  "^"+chr(first + 64)
        if first == 27:
            (first, c) = get_next_byte(s)
            return "M-"+c
    if 194 <= first:
        (code, c) = get_next_byte(s) # 2 bytes char
        char += c
    if 224 <= first:
        (code, c) = get_next_byte(s) # 3 bytes char
        char += c
    if 240 <= first:
        (code, c) = get_next_byte(s) # 4 bytes char
        char += c
    return char.decode('utf-8')# return all the concatened byte objets, decoded

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import curses
    s = curses.initscr()
    curses.noecho()
    while True:
        s.addstr('%s\n' % read_char(s))