How to input one char at a time from stdin?

[Steven Bethard]

Swaroop C H wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:38:13 -0700, Brent W. Hughes
> <brent.hughes at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>>I'd like to get a character from stdin, perform some action, get another
>>character, etc.  If I just use stdin.read(1), it waits until I finish typing
>>a whole line before I can get the first character.  How do I deal with this?
> 
> 
> This is exactly what you need:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/134892
> Title: "getch()-like unbuffered character reading from stdin on both
> Windows and Unix"
> 
> This recipe was a lifesaver for me once :-)

Thanks for the link!  I've seen this question before a few times, but no 
one had pointed out the recipe.

Steve