A completely silly question

[Mike Meyer]

Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> writes:

> Amir Dekel wrote:
>> What I need from the program is to wait for a single character
>> input, something like while(getchar()) in C. All those Python
>> modules don't make much sence to me...
>
> sys.stdin.read(1)

That doesn't do what he wants, because it doesn't return until you hit
a newline.

The answer is system dependent. Or you can use massive overkill and
get curses, but if you're on windows you'll have to use a third party
curses package, and maybe wrap it


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