Read one key press.

[Martin Pool]

Gerrit Holl wrote:
> Hmm. I think curses is the module I need, but I can't find documentation and
> the module is written in c so I can't read that. If I run your example, I get
> Traceback (innermost last):it:~/oefen/python$ python modcurse.py
>                              File "modcurse.py", line 6, in ?
>                                                                  key = curses.getch()
>      AttributeError: getch
>                           20:17:46:17/516:gerrit at gerrit:~/oefen/python$
> and my terminal is totally wrong (if I press enter I don't get a newline, etc.)

If you get into this state by breaking a curses program you can usually
fix it by typing 

  reset [enter]

which gets your terminal back to a sane state.  (It doesn't reset the
machine, or anything like that.)  This often works even if you can't see
your keypresses echoed back: it's getting to the shell anyhow.

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