Temporarily exit cbreak mode?

[Eric Park]

Is there a way to temporarily "exit" cbreak mode like in curses with something like term.nocbreak()? I need to get user input with the standard Python input() function but the cbreak mode "hides" input echo on the screen.

I tried using with term.raw() with the input statement but that ended up locking up my terminal. Is there a way to temporarily exit cbreak mode within a function?

[Avram Lubkin]

No, Termnal.cbreak is implemented as a context manager, and is generally used in a with block. If you can do it this way, your code can be pretty simple.

with term.cbreak():
    # In cbreak

If you need more control, you can preserve the context manager and enter and exit manually. I would recommend guarding it with try finally to avoid remaining in cbreak if you have an unhandled exception.

ctx = None
try:
    if need_cbreak:
        ctx = term.cbreak()
        ctx.__enter__()
        # In cbreak

finally:
    if ctx is not None:
        ctx.__exit__(None, None, None)

[Eric Park]

Thank you! Using a context manager variable worked for my use case. I think it might be helpful if this was in the documentation.

I'll close the issue now. Thanks again!