A completely silly question

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Fri Dec 17 15:52:17 EST 2004


Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> writes:

> Mike Meyer wrote:
>> That doesn't do what he wants, because it doesn't return until you hit
>> a newline.
> Of course if the intent is to have this work with terminal input, then
> yes, sys.stdin.read(1) is probably not going to do the right thing...

That's what the OP asked for - a way to wait for a single character,
like while(getchar()) in C.

Hmm. That tells me he's probably on a Windows box, so my unix solution
wouldn't do him much good.

         <mike
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