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Re: Dos cursor and input management.

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On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 20:25:11 +1100, Sean Murphy <mhysnm1964@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>Hi all.
>
>I am after a module that manages keyboard input. I am aware of raw_input for python 2.x and input for 3.x. They don't quite achieve what I want.
>
>I want to except a single key without printing it to the screen and then the key would perform an action. Sudo code:

	{accept, pseudo} {except means excluding or outside of, sudo is a
UNIX/Linux command allowing privileged users to access restricted system
commands}

>
>print line of text
>wait for key press

	To my knowledge there is no single OS independent means of doing this.

	Under Windows, you want msvcrt.getch() (and variants; note the M$
Visual C RunTime). On UNIX variants, you might want the curses.getkey().
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