[Tutor] simple, probably stupid question: single key in console / idle

[Alan Gauld]

"Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote

>> I import msvcrt (running on Windows) but I cant get it to run.
>> Is ther somewhere a sample I could peek on?
> 

I just noticed the bit about IDLE in the subject.
msvcrt only works in a DOS console it won't work in 
IDLE because IDLE is detecting the keyboard events 
as GUI events within Tkinter. You will need to run 
your code in a command console not IDLE.


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