Single character input without pressing 'Enter'

unni.tallman

how can i read input from stdin, char by char, i want to get the
character as soon as it is entered, without having to press 'Enter'
after each character.

Sep 20 '06 #1

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Gabriel Genellina

At Wednesday 20/9/2006 00:40, unni.tallman wrote:

>how can i read input from stdin, char by char, i want to get the
character as soon as it is entered, without having to press 'Enter'
after each character.

See this thread
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-August/355683.html>

Gabriel Genellina
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Sep 20 '06 #2

Fredrik Lundh

unni.tallman wrote:

how can i read input from stdin, char by char, i want to get the
character as soon as it is entered, without having to press 'Enter'
after each character.

related FAQ entries:

http://pyfaq.infogami.com/how-do-i-g...ress-at-a-time
http://pyfaq.infogami.com/how-do-i-c...thout-blocking

(they should probably link to each other ;-)

</F>

Sep 20 '06 #3

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