Single character input without pressing 'Enter'

[unni.tallman]

how can i read input from stdin, char by char, i want to get the
character as soon as it is entered, without having to press 'Enter'
after each character.

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

how can i read input from stdin, char by char, i want to get the
character as soon as it is entered, without having to press 'Enter'
after each character.

See this thread
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-August/355683.html>



Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL





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[Dennis Lee Bieber]

how can i read input from stdin, char by char, i want to get the
character as soon as it is entered, without having to press 'Enter'
after each character.

Insufficient information...

It depends on the OS...

On M$ Windows, check the msvcrt module... Unix variant -- probably
mystical invocations using tty and termios modules
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[Fredrik Lundh]

how can i read input from stdin, char by char, i want to get the
character as soon as it is entered, without having to press 'Enter'
after each character.

related FAQ entries:

http://pyfaq.infogami.com/how-do-i-get-a-single-keypress-at-a-time
http://pyfaq.infogami.com/how-do-i-check-for-a-keypress-without-blocking

(they should probably link to each other ;-)

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