Single key press

88888 Dihedral dihedral88888 at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 6 10:38:15 EST 2011


On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 11:22:18 PM UTC+8, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2011-12-06, Sergi Pasoev <s.pa... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I wonder if it is realistic to get a single key press in Python
> > without ncurses or
> > any similar library.
> 
> Yes.  Just put the tty associated with stdin in raw mode and make
> single byte read() calls on it. Remember to restore the tty settings
> when your program exits.
> 
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