On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:38:13 -0700, Brent W. Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to get a character from stdin, perform some action, get another > character, etc. If I just use stdin.read(1), it waits until I finish typing > a whole line before I can get the first character. How do I deal with this?
This is exactly what you need: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/134892 Title: "getch()-like unbuffered character reading from stdin on both Windows and Unix" This recipe was a lifesaver for me once :-) Regards, -- Swaroop C H Blog: http://www.swaroopch.info Book: http://www.byteofpython.info -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
