Read one key press.

[Adrian Eyre]

> key = raw_input("press a key: ")
> if key == 'a':
>     print "you pressed 'a'"
> elif key == '^['
>     print "you pressed escape"

This is a platform dependent issue.

For Win32, you can use:

import msvcrt
key = msvcrt.getch()

For unix, it's probably easiest to use the curses module:

import curses
win = curses.initscr()
key = win.getch()

I think then you're stuck with curses for all IO though.
Not sure about this one.

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