Re: reading one byte from stdin

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  • Fredrik Lundh

    Re: reading one byte from stdin

    Mark McDuff wrote:
    I'm trying to read one byte from stdin, without the newline.
    >
    If I try something like:
    >>import os, sys
    >>os.read(sys.s tdin.fileno(),1 )
    >
    I can input a character, but then I have to press enter, which leaves a
    newline character in the stdin buffer and requires two keypresses. Is
    there any way to read only one keypress in a simple manner (i.e. no
    curses)?
    in addition to the cookbook article Diez posted, there's also a FAQ
    entry about this:



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