Keys To The Kingdom

[Tim Daneliuk]

Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> 
> I have a two part question about accepting keyboard input in python:
> 
> Is there a standard way to read one keystroke at a time rather than
> doing line input via raw_input()?

To calrify - I know this is possible using features of the msvcrt module,
but I really want something that is portable across all python environments.
If that's not possible, is there an equivalent unix/MacOS feature so I can 
at least select which one to use at runtime based on the OS discovered
at startup?  TIA...


> 
> For some reason, I cannot seem to catch Ctrl-C when it is typed in response
> to a raw_input() call.  This code still blows out of the python interpreter
> when the user keys in Ctrl-C:
> 
> try:
>         x=raw_input()
> except KeyBoardInterrupt:
>         # Handle the Ctrl-C and regroup
>         ...
> 
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> Tim Daneliuk
> tundra at tundraware.com


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Tim Daneliuk
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