Read one key press.

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gerrit Holl <gerrit.holl at pobox.com> wrote:
> if I have the following program:
> 
> key = raw_input("press a key: ")
> if key == 'a':
>     print "you pressed 'a'"
> elif key == '^['
>     print "you pressed escape"
> 
> it doesn't work. Well, it works but it itsn't what I'm looking for. I want
> ONE key input. Can this me done easyly?

well, at least it can be done in Python.  here's something
that appears to work on Windows and Linux (should have
been in the guide, but didn't quite make it).

# tty-example-2.py

import sys

try:
    # windows or dos
    import msvcrt
    getkey = msvcrt.getch
except ImportError:
    # assume unix
    import tty, termios, TERMIOS
    def getkey():
        file = sys.stdin.fileno()
        mode = termios.tcgetattr(file)
        try:
            tty.setraw(file, TERMIOS.TCSANOW)
            ch = sys.stdin.read(1)
        finally:
            termios.tcsetattr(file, TERMIOS.TCSANOW, mode)
        return ch

print "press 'q' to quit..."

while 1:
    ch = getkey()
    if ch == "q":
        break
    print ch,

print

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