Is there a way of reading one single character from the user input? For instance, they press one key at the terminal and it is returned (sort of like getch()
).
This code, based off here, will correctly raise KeyboardInterrupt and EOFError if Ctrl+C or Ctrl+D are pressed.
Should work on Windows and Linux. An OS X version is available from the original source.
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):
char = self.impl()
if char == '\x03':
raise KeyboardInterrupt
elif char == '\x04':
raise EOFError
return char
class _GetchUnix:
def __init__(self):
import tty
import sys
def __call__(self):
import sys
import tty
import 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()