Polling from keyboard

[sturnfie at gmail.com]

I am trying to find a way to poll the keyboard.  In my searching, I
have found that Windows users are given the msvcrt module.  Is there an
equivilant for Unix systems?

I am writing a p2p chat application, and would like to ideally approach
user input in a manner similar to the way I am using poll() to moniter
the sockets for events

thanks in advance

-- 
lucas