Reading character from keyboard

Tommy Grav napisal(a):
A very simple question. I would like to read a single character from the
keyboard (y or n). I have tried to look in my Python books and a google
search, but have come up empty. I am sure the info s out there, but I
guess I am unable to find the right question or search keyword :o/
Any hints or help appreciated
Cheers
Tommy
Actually, if you want to read only one character from keyboard, you
will need to use terminal operations rather than plain input stream.
Unfortunately this is rather not portable solution. For Windows you
have to import msvcrt, on Unices curses module. The latter code is
quite similar. Example:
import msvcrt
def prompt(msg='Your choice: ', options={'y': True, 'n': False}):
while True:
print msg
key = msvcrt.getch()
choice = str(key).lower()
if options.has_key(choice):
break
print 'You entered wrong key! Enter again.'
return options[choice]
print prompt() and 'Good for you.' or 'Bad Luck.'

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At Tuesday 23/1/2007 15:28, consmash (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

A very simple question. I would like to read a single character from the
keyboard (y or n). I have tried to look in my Python books and a google
>
>Actually, if you want to read only one character from keyboard, you
>will need to use terminal operations rather than plain input stream.
>Unfortunately this is rather not portable solution. For Windows you
>have to import msvcrt, on Unices curses module. The latter code is

There is a portable getch implementation, search the Python Cookbook.

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