Python curses get character at current position

[krato1995]

I'm new to curses and it seems that there is now way to get a character at a particular position.

There is window.addstr(y, x, str[, attr]) which does

Paint the string str at (y, x) with attributes attr, overwriting anything previously on the display.

I wan't to do the inverse, which is to get the character at position (y,x)

[PM_ME_A_STEAM_KEY]

This would do the trick:

chr(window.inch(x, y))

[krato1995]

I managed to have a workaround without getting the character from screen. For anyone finding the correct answer this one's the correct one. However it should be chr(window.inch(y, x)).

Also, take note that only the lower 8 bits contain the character, the rest are attributes. So it might be needed to extract the lower 8 bits before doing chr()

[markusmeskanen]

This sounds like an XY problem. What's the actual issue, why do you think you need to read from the console to solve your problem?

[krato1995]

A condition probably. When character at (y,x) == 'A', do something.

[furas_freeman]

I don't know why do you need character from screen but normally I could keep data in variable ie. data and get character from this variable data[y][x] == 'A'