On Feb 25, 12:35 pm, wyleu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to read a single keypress on Linux but expect to have the > programme running on Windows platform as well and find the mention in > the FAQ: > > import termios, fcntl, sys, os > fd = sys.stdin.fileno() > > oldterm = termios.tcgetattr(fd) > newattr = termios.tcgetattr(fd) > newattr[3] = newattr[3] & ~termios.ICANON & ~termios.ECHO > termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSANOW, newattr) > > oldflags = fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_GETFL) > fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, oldflags | os.O_NONBLOCK) > > try: > while 1: > try: > c = sys.stdin.read(1) > print "Got character", `c` > except IOError: pass > finally: > termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSAFLUSH, oldterm) > fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, oldflags) > > However this fails on the second line as sys.stdin seems to have no > method fileno. > Any idea how I might proceed?
I've never done this sort of thing (except in wxPython), but with a little Google-magic I found the following: A recipe that supposedly does this in a cross-platform way: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/134892 And a Windows only module: http://effbot.org/librarybook/msvcrt.htm HTH Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
