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)
but if you're having trouble reading the module documentation, maybe you could elaborate on what's giving you trouble. The answer to 99% of questions on this list is in the documentation somewhere, so if you don't know how to read it, you're going to have trouble with Python.
Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list