Catching console output interactively

[Byrom, R (Rob)]

hi,

I'd like to be able to trap console output as the user writes interactively.
For example if the user press the up or down keys I'd like to be able to
catch this and return the last executed command (a bit like the bash_history
idea). Can anyone point me in the right direction?

thanks for any help,

Rob

 

[Jarek Zgoda]

Dnia Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:56:24 +0100, Byrom, R (Rob) pisze:

I'd like to be able to trap console output as the user writes
interactively. For example if the user press the up or down keys I'd
like to be able to catch this and return the last executed command (a
bit like the bash_history idea). Can anyone point me in the right
direction?

This is feature of GNU readline library, available on some Unix and
Unix-like systems. If you want to build something, that resembles Unix
shells, you can use class Cmd from cmd module. This class uses readline if
it is available on host system. I don't know, how it behaves on Windows
and if it uses capabilities of cmd.exe.

 

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Rob,

I'd like to be able to trap console output as the user writes interactively.
For example if the user press the up or down keys I'd like to be able to
catch this and return the last executed command (a bit like the bash_history
idea). Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Depending on what you'd like to do you can try:
"curses" module (available only on unix like systems)
wxPython
PyGame

HTH.
Miki

 

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Rob,

I'd like to be able to trap console output as the user writes interactively.
For example if the user press the up or down keys I'd like to be able to
catch this and return the last executed command (a bit like the bash_history
idea). Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Depending on what you'd like to do you can try:
"curses" module (available only on unix like systems)
wxPython
PyGame

HTH.
Miki

 

[Michael Hudson]

hi,

I'd like to be able to trap console output as the user writes interactively.
For example if the user press the up or down keys I'd like to be able to
catch this and return the last executed command (a bit like the bash_history
idea). Can anyone point me in the right direction?

What platform?

Cheers,
mwh