> > A recipe that supposedly does this in a cross-platform > way:http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/134892
class _Getch: """Gets a single character from standard input. Does not echo to the screen.""" def __init__(self): try: self.impl = _GetchWindows() except ImportError: self.impl = _GetchUnix() def __call__(self): return self.impl() class _GetchUnix: def __init__(self): import tty, sys def __call__(self): import sys, tty, termios fd = sys.stdin.fileno() old_settings = termios.tcgetattr(fd) try: tty.setraw(sys.stdin.fileno()) ch = sys.stdin.read(1) finally: termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, old_settings) return ch class _GetchWindows: def __init__(self): import msvcrt def __call__(self): import msvcrt return msvcrt.getch() getch = _Getch() Sadly this also fails with: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in -toplevel- a = getch() File "/home/chris/getch.py", line 10, in __call__ def __call__(self): return self.impl() File "/home/chris/getch.py", line 19, in __call__ fd = sys.stdin.fileno() AttributeError: fileno What is fileno, and why might I not have it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list