Does one have to use curses to read single characters from keyboard?

[Chris Green]

Is the only way to read single characters from the keyboard to use
curses.cbreak() or curses.raw()?  If so how do I then read characters,
it's not at all obvious from the curses documentation as that seems to
think I'm using a GUI in some shape or form.

All I actually want to do is get 'Y' or 'N' answers to questions on
the command line.

Searching for ways to do this produces what seem to me rather clumsy
ways of doing it.

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Chris Green
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