Add curses_check_for_keypress post.

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@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ personal `layman.xml`).  The overlay is a fairly strange mix:
 
 - app-misc/lifelines
   ([Gentoo 42103](http://bugs.gentoo.org/42103))
+- dev-python/curses-check-for-keypress
+  (my [[curses_check_for_keypress]] package)
 - dev-python/splittable-kwargs
   (my [[splittable_kwargs]] package)
 - dev-tex/draftmark

diff --git a/posts/curses_check_for_keypress.mdwn b/posts/curses_check_for_keypress.mdwn
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+[[!meta  title="curses_check_for_keypress"]]
+[[!template id=gitrepo repo=curses_check_for_keypress]]
+
+There are some points in my experiment control code where the program
+does something for an arbitrary length of time (e.g, waits while the
+operator manually adjusts a laser's alignment).  For these situations,
+I wanted to be able to loop until the user pressed a key.  This is a
+simple enough idea, but the implementation turned out to be
+complicated enough for me to spin it out as a stand-alone module.
+
+[[!tag tags/code]]
+[[!tag tags/linux]]
+[[!tag tags/programming]]
+[[!tag tags/python]]