David Bolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Amir Dekel wrote:
>> >> 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)
>>
>> That doesn't do what he wants, because it doesn't return until you hit
>> a newline.
>
> Well, but that's true as well for getchar() (at least in many cases of
> interactive input and line buffering), so in that respect I do think
> it's a fairly direct replacement, depending on how the OP was going to
> use getchar() in the application.
The OP said "wait for a single character input". sys.stdin.read(1)
waits for a newline.
<mike
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