Implementing C++'s getch() in Python

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sat May 25 10:14:46 EDT 2019


On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 12:12, <binoythomas1108 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm working on Python 3.7 under Windows. I need a way to input characters without echoing them on screen, something that getch() did effectively in C++. I read about the unicurses, ncurses and curses modules, which I was not able to install using pip.
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> Is there any way of getting this done?

On Windows, the msvcrt module exposes getch:
https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/msvcrt.html#msvcrt.getch



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