sys.stdin.readline() reads without prompt, returning 'nothing in between'

Question

I have a function that executes the following (among other things):

userinput = stdin.readline()
betAmount = int(userinput)

Is supposed to tak

Answer 1

If you need just one character and you don't want to keep things in the buffer, you can simply read a whole line and drop everything that isn't needed.

Replace:

stdin.read(1)

with

stdin.readline().strip()[:1]

This will read a line, remove spaces and newlines and just keep the first character.