Fredrik Lundh wrote: > works for me, when running it from a stock CPython interpreter in a windows > console window, with focus set to that window. > > what environment are you using?
Could be IDLE. The code Fredrik proposed works well for me in the Python console window, but not in IDLE (thats under XP). I guess that IDLE makes use of msvcrt itself. Let's remember that the OP describes himself as a newbie in the subject, so he might not know the difference between those two interactive environments. /MiO -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
