io

This module provides interfaces for working with to I/O stream and TTYs as well as expose the operating system standard I/O for easy access.

Some I/O operations that should belong to this module have been merged as core features and offered as built-in functions for Blade. Specifically file I/O features that can be accessed via the built-in file() function.

The standard I/O streams are also files and you can call almost all file methods on them. Whenever a file method is not supported, you’ll get an error message telling you that such operation is not supported for standard streams.

Example

The following example shows how to use the io module for accepting user name and printing the result.

import io

var name = io.readline('What is your name?')
echo name

Properties

io.SEEK_SET: Set I/O position from the beginning

io.SEEK_CUR: Set I/O position from the current position

io.SEEK_END: Set I/O position from the end

io.stdin: stdin is a file handle to the standard input file of the system

io.stdout: stdout is a file handle to the standard output file of the system

io.stderr: stderr is a file handle to the standard error file of the system

Functions

io.flush(file: file): flushes the content of the given file handle

io.putc(c: char): writes character c to the screen
return nil

io.getc(): reads character(s) from standard input
when length is given, gets length number of characters else, gets a single character

returns char | string

io.getch(): reads character(s) from standard input without printing to standard output
when length is given, gets length number of characters else, gets a single character

returns char | string

io.readline([message: string [, secure: bool = false [, obscure_text = ‘*’]]])

reads an entire line from standard input. If a messagge is given, the message will be printed before it begins to wait for a user input. If secure is true, the user’s input will not be printing and obscure_text will be printed instead.

newlines will not be added automatically for messages.

returns string

Classes

class TTY

class TTY is an interface to TTY terminals this class contains definitions to control TTY terminals

class TTY properties

static TTY.TTY_IFLAG: TTY attribute for input flags
static
static TTY.TTY_OFLAG: TTY attribute for output flags
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static TTY.TTY_CFLAG: TTY attribute for control flags
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static TTY.TTY_LFLAG: TTY attribute for local flags
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static TTY.TTY_ISPEED: TTY attribute for input speed
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static TTY.TTY_OSPEED: TTY attribute for output speed
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static TTY.IGNBRK: ignore BREAK condition
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static TTY.BRKINT: map BREAK to SIGINTR
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static TTY.IGNPAR: ignore (discard) parity errors
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static TTY.PARMRK: mark parity and framing errors
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static TTY.INPCK: enable checking of parity errors
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static TTY.ISTRIP: strip 8th bit off chars
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static TTY.INLCR: map NL into CR
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static TTY.IGNCR: ignore CR
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static TTY.ICRNL: map CR to NL (ala CRMOD)
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static TTY.IXON: enable output flow control
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static TTY.IXOFF: enable input flow control
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static TTY.IXANY: any char will restart after stop
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static TTY.IUTF8: maintain state for UTF-8 VERASE
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static TTY.OPOST: enable following output processing
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static TTY.ONLCR: map NL to CR-NL (ala CRMOD)
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static TTY.CSIZE: character size mask
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static TTY.CS5: 5 bits (pseudo)
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static TTY.CS6: 6 bits
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static TTY.CS7: 7 bits
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static TTY.CS8: 8 bits
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static TTY.CSTOPB: send 2 stop bits
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static TTY.CREAD: enable receiver
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static TTY.PARENB: parity enable
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static TTY.PARODD: odd parity, else even
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static TTY.HUPCL: hang up on last close
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static TTY.CLOCAL: ignore modem status lines
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static TTY.ECHOE: visually erase chars
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static TTY.ECHOK: echo NL after line kill
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static TTY.ECHO: enable echoing
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static TTY.ECHONL: echo NL even if ECHO is off
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static TTY.ISIG: enable signals INTR, QUIT, [D]SUSP
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static TTY.ICANON: canonicalize input lines
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static TTY.IEXTEN: enable DISCARD and LNEXT
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static TTY.TOSTOP: stop background jobs from output
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static TTY.NOFLSH: don’t flush after interrupt
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static TTY.TCSANOW: make change immediate
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static TTY.TCSADRAIN: drain output, then change
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static TTY.TCSAFLUSH: drain output, flush input
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static TTY.VEOF: ICANON
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static TTY.VEOL: ICANON
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static TTY.VERASE: ICANON
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static TTY.VKILL: ICANON
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static TTY.VINTR: ISIG
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static TTY.VQUIT: ISIG
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static TTY.VSUSP: ISIG
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static TTY.VSTART: IXON, IXOFF
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static TTY.VSTOP: IXON, IXOFF
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static TTY.VMIN: !ICANON
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static TTY.VTIME: !ICANON
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class TTY methods

TTY(std: file): constructor

file must be one of stdout and stderr

get_attr()

Returns the attribute of the current tty session The returned a attributes is a dict containing the TTY_ flags

set_attr(option: number, attrs: dict)

sets the attributes of the current tty session

option: one ot the TCSA options above (see their description above)
attrs a dictionary of the TTY_ flags listed above
one can safely omit any of the TTY_ flags listed above and Blade will fill in the default values as it exists.
- this flags will be merged and not overwritten

set_raw()

sets the current tty to raw mode

return bool

exit_raw()

disables the raw mode flags on the current tty

return bool

flush()

flushes the standard output and standard error interface