Single key press

[88888 Dihedral]

On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 1:49:55 PM UTC+8, Sergi Pasoev wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I wonder if it is realistic to get a single key press in Python
> without ncurses or
> any similar library. In single key press I mean something like j and k
> in Gnu less
> program, you press the key and and it is captured by the script without need to
> press enter afterwards

Sounds like the  fast key searching for a list in the DOS application in the  
old days. 

This is easy in GUI of just tens of items, but for thousands of items such 
as in a directory listing, some API is really slow.