getch() of Turbo C in Python?

[Alex Martelli]

"Anurag Ved" <anuragved at vsnl.com> wrote in message
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> Is there something similar to the getch() function of Turbo C which
> reads just one key from <stdin> and returns immediately?

Yes, it's called getch() and is exported from module msvcrt (in
Windows versions of Python).


Alex