The idea is to write a conio module with an implementation for both
Windows and POSIX (like serialport).

> Comprehensive test coverage and developer-oriented
> documentation
> improve the chances of someone else picking up where you've left off.
>

I'll try to reuse the console module from IPython.
Is it a problem the use of ctype?
This is not really necessary with pywin32.

Personally I'd prefer a switch to ctypes from pywin32. It's smaller, it's included in Python 2.5.