I want to write a game in Python (in terminal, not graphical) which captures key inputs but still keeps running and not wait for a key pressed. For instance, I want to move a bat up and down, just by pressing the arrow keys. But, when I do not press anything, the game must continue by i.e. bouncing the ball around.
Can this be done easily, without using extra modules like tkinter or pygame? I mean, is there somthing which can act like 'key_pressed = get_key' (fictional line)
# Sample functions def print_board(ball_pos, bat_pos): # Print the entire board def move_ball(ball_pos, increment): # Check boundaries, if hit wall, reverse increment ## Code comes here... # Move ball ball_pos[0] += increment[0] ball_pos[1] += increment[2] return ball_pos def move_bat(bat_pos_y, increment_y): # Check boundaries, if hit wall, do not increment ## Code comes here... bat_pos_y += increment_y return bat_pos_y # Sample main routine ## Initialisation comes here... ## Game routine while True: bat_inc = 0 # Get a keystroke, without waiting ##key_pressed = get_key if (key_pressed == UP): bat_inc = -1 elif (key_pressed == DOWN): bat_inc = 1 move_ball(ball, inc) move_bat(bat, bat_inc) print_board(ball, bat) 