Monitor key presses in Python?

[John Gordon]

In <57051d11-abd9-4621-9618-1574cd37545c at googlegroups.com> eamonnrea at gmail.com writes:

> Is there a way to detect if the user presses a key in Python that works on
> most OS's?

That depends on what you're really asking; your question is somewhat vague.

Are you asking for a function that waits for the user to press a key and
then returns the key that was pressed?

Or are you asking for a function that detects whether a key has been
pressed at all?

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