I am using following code which I have found on
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/py4fun/ few months ago. It works well for my
purposes. Another way is to use Curses library.
HTH
Petr Jakes
#!/usr/local/bin/python
#
# t t y L i n u x . p y
#
# getLookAhead reads lookahead chars from the keyboard without
# echoing them. It still honors ^C etc
#
import termios, sys, time
if sys.version > "2.1" : TERMIOS = termios
else : import TERMIOS
def setSpecial () :
"set keyboard to read single chars lookahead only"
global oldSettings
fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
oldSettings = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
new = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
new[3] = new[3] & ~TERMIOS.ECHO # lflags
new[3] = new[3] & ~TERMIOS.ICANON # lflags
new[6][6] = '\000' # Set VMIN to zero for lookahead only
termios.tcsetattr(fd, TERMIOS.TCSADRAIN, new)
def setNormal () :
"restore previous keyboard settings"
global oldSettings
fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
termios.tcsetattr(fd, TERMIOS.TCSADRAIN, oldSettings)
def readLookAhead () :
"read max 1 chars (arrow escape seq) from look ahead"
return sys.stdin.read(1)
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