[Tutor] No Need to press Enter

[Chris Smith]

> From: Joseph Quigley

> What is the secret to have the user press the "Q" key, and the program
> exits without pressing the "Enter" key?
> Or the "Control" and "Q" keys to exit?
> For the Macintosh, would the same command/s for "Control Q" keys be the
> same as the "Apple Q" key?
>

I see that Diane has suggested (what I believe to be) a pyGame 
solution.  I had asked this question before and Danny Yoo wrote up a 
script that is posted at

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/134892

With the modifications that I added (just before sending this) the code 
there has the ability to get the getch() behavior (not having to press 
enter) on the Mac (whether you are running under the pythonIDE or the 
Terminal), Windows, or Unix.

An example of usage (assuming that the code is stored in a file named 
getch.py) might be,

###
import getch
inkey = getch._Getch()
print 'Press any key to end'
while inkey()=='':
    pass
print 'ok'
###