[Tutor] msvcrt.getch()

[Dragonfirebane at aol.com]

Hello all,

I was trying to set up a 'press any key to exit' mini-program similar to the 
one described here: 
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/tutor2/tutevent.htm, but there seemse to be an issue with msvcrt.getch() on my computer 
(Windows XP Home, Python Version 2.3.4 final, IDLE version 1.0.3) when I ran it on 
IDLE. When I just type [msvcrt.getch()] at the prompt, it returns '\xff' as 
shown below:

>>> msvcrt.getch()
'\xff'

This means that when I try running the script described at the above website, 
a space does squat, as demonstrated below:

>>> 

























Hit space to end...

255
 255
255
 255
255
 255
 255
255
255
 255
... ##until i hit Control-C
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Documents and Settings/Cookie/Desktop/try.py", line 32, in ?
    doKeyEvent(key)
  File "C:/Documents and Settings/Cookie/Desktop/try.py", line 9, in 
doKeyEvent
    print ord(key)
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 1128, in write
    self.shell.write(s, self.tags)
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 1117, in write
    raise KeyboardInterrupt
KeyboardInterrupt

The spaces before the '255' are points when i tried to exit using a space. A 
minor detail about the script at the site: it doesn't work as is, so i added a 
colon after the if-else lines in the first module and changed all references 
to 'ky' to 'key' for consistency. Any ideas as to why this doesn't work?

Thanks in advance, 
Orri

P.S.: I just had a thought that perhaps it was something with IDLE, and since 
it *does* work on the Python command line, i suspect that there might be an 
issue with IDLE's way of handling msvcrt.getch().

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