How to read one raw character at a time?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Jerome Quelin wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> When prompting a user for something, I would like to fetch and proceed
> his answer character by character, and not line by line. How should I
> do?
> 
> sys.stdin.read(1) proceeds only when the user hits the return key,
> that's not what I want.

You haven't mentioned your OS, but if you're on UNIX, you better have
a look at the "curses" module.
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