How to catch a character from keyboard

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I am working on a python project and I have got the following questions. How to catch a character in python ? What modules I need to use ? What functions I need to use?

Read up on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5404068/how-to-read-keyboard-input — Girrafish, Aug 05 '16 at 15:58

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 05 '16 at 16:05

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If you need to take a line of input just use:

x = input('Your name: ')
y = input()

Or (For Python 2)

x = raw_input('Your name: ')
y = raw_input()

For taking just one character from the keyboard you can use msvcrt.getch():

import msvcrt

key = msvcrt.getch()

if key == 'a':
    print("You pressed a")

answered Aug 05 '16 at 16:05

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Note that `msvcrt.getch` is only for a console application. – Eryk Sun Aug 05 '16 at 18:57

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