Unbuffered keyboard input

[Andrew Dalke]

apighin at my-deja.com wrote:
>I am looking for a way to open the keyboard/console as unbuffered.

Use the '-u' flag to start Python in unbuffered mode.

>What I would like to be able to do is do a stdin.read(1), and if no
>character is available, just go to the top of the loop and try again.

Or read the FAQ entry titled "How to get a single keypress at a time?"
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq04.074.htp
(Your mention of /dev/console implies this Unix answer.  There's a pointer
to another solution for MS Windows.)

                    Andrew
                    dalke at acm.org