Re: Single key press

From	88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com>
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Subject	Re: Single key press
Date	2011-12-06 07:38 -0800
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On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 11:22:18 PM UTC+8, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2011-12-06, Sergi Pasoev <s.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I wonder if it is realistic to get a single key press in Python
> > without ncurses or
> > any similar library.
> 
> Yes.  Just put the tty associated with stdin in raw mode and make
> single byte read() calls on it. Remember to restore the tty settings
> when your program exits.
> 
> -- 
> Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! World War III?
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Single key press Sergi Pasoev <s.pasoev@gmail.com> - 2011-12-06 10:19 +0430
  Re: Single key press 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-05 22:27 -0800
  Re: Single key press 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-05 22:27 -0800
  Re: Single key press alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2011-12-06 00:39 -0800
  Re: Single key press Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-06 08:48 +0000
    Re: Single key press Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2011-12-06 10:28 +0100
  Re: Single key press Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-12-06 09:48 +0000
  Re: Single key press Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-06 15:22 +0000
    Re: Single key press 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-06 07:38 -0800

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