curses - Capture input at cursor position?

[LinkMaster03]

Using curses, how can I echo and capture input at the current cursor position? I have moved the cursor using scr.move(y,x) and turned on echoing. I can type into it and have it displayed. How can I capture this data as a string after the user presses enter?

[int3grate]

There's a bunch of different ways:

curses.echo()            # Enable echoing of characters
# Get a 10-character string, with the cursor at pos x,y
s = stdscr.getstr(x,y, 15)

curses.echo()
c = stdscr.getch() # gets ascii integer value of character pressed on keyboard (use chr() function to convert it to an actual character)

[LinkMaster03]

Thank you very much! It's great that you can specify the length and position all inside that one function.