Python input single character without enter

Question

What I am trying to do is make a simple pi memorization game in Python. What I need is a way to get input from the user without having to press \'enter\' after every charac

Answer 1

You can define your own version of getch using the termios, sys and tty packages:

def getch():
    import termios
    import sys, tty
    def _getch():
        fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
        old_settings = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
        try:
            tty.setraw(fd)
            ch = sys.stdin.read(1)
        finally:
            termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, old_settings)
        return ch
    return _getch()

Answer 2

This is a tested (on RPi, Py 3) code that can read a specified length of chars without need to hit Enter button

But consider one thing :

This must run on terminal otherwise raises an error

import termios, sys , tty
def _getch():
   fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
   old_settings = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
   try:
      tty.setraw(fd)
      ch = sys.stdin.read(1)     #This number represents the length
   finally:
      termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, old_settings)
   return ch
getch = _getch()
print(getch)