Re: evt.GetUnicodeKey returns int instead of string

On 4/15/2015 18:55, Robin Dunn wrote:
> Werner wrote:
>> Hi Robin,
>>
>> I am looking into this again as I run into another issue with it in my
>> software.
>>
>> I wonder if the documentation is correct, and classic is not doing the
>> right thing, but Phoenix does (even so my first post said it did act as
>> classic did:-[ ).
>>
>> evt.GetKeyCode()
>> 111
>> evt.GetUnicodeKey()
>> 111
>> wx.VERSION_STRING
>> '2.9.5.0'
>>
>> evt.GetKeyCode()
>> 111
>> evt.GetUnicodeKey()
>> u'o'
>> wx.VERSION_STRING
>> '3.0.3.dev1784+18750f4'
>>
>
>
> I think that the correct thing to do for Python would be to have both 
> methods return integers.  That seems more consistent to me, since they 
> are basically doing the same thing, returning a code that either 
> represents the physical key on the keyboard, or possibly the cooked 
> value or a value generated by the IME, depending on the type of event. 
> Although it may just be my C roots showing but to me a single 
> "character" is an integer value in a specific range, which is 
> different than a string of length 1 (because it will actually be a 
> collection of 2 characters including the termination byte.)
>
> Python has chr() (and unichr() in 2.7) to convert the numeric values 
> to a string or unicode object if needed.
>
> Thoughts?
I think it is nice the way Phoenix handles it.

wx.VERSION_STRING
'3.0.3.dev1784+18750f4'
evt.KeyCode
59
evt.GetUnicodeKey()
';'

What do we get if GetUnicodeKey is also returning 59 in this case?

If we need to use chr/unichr to get the typed character then we would 
also need to check for Py version - not so nice:-) .

My vote would be that GetUnicodeKey works as in Phoenix (until the 
14th;-) ), and that classic should be adjusted.

Werner

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