🔒 How to change the keys of inputs instead pressing enter in python

[cosmic grail]

Hi i was wondering to change the keys of inputs for example
instead i press enter i can change it from enter to 2 or any other key on the keyboard and thanks✨

[tender pelican]

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[cosmic grail]

ok so basically when you run your code isn't you have to press enter on ur keyboard to change the next page
all i want to know how i can change that to another botton in ur keyboard

[lapis tree]

Do you mean changing the key that submits what an user types to input()?

[cosmic grail]

ya!

that what am trying to say

is possible?

[unreal gale]

This is surprisingly difficult because your terminal doesn't send the input to the python process until an entire line is entered

[cosmic grail]

aw

[vestal orbit]

Its possible you can alter you keyboard remappings (of the device) to what you want.

[unreal gale]

e.g. this reads exactly 1 character from the terminal input (that's what stdin means), but it only happens after you hit enter: ```py
import sys
print(sys.stdin.read(1))

[cosmic grail]

ah i see

alr guys thanks for the information i appreciate this

[unreal gale]

It's definitely possible (it's been done before), but I think it will involve a 3rd party library

@cosmic grail Actually, it turns out you can disable it with just the standard library: ```py
import sys
import tty
tty.setcbreak(sys.stdin) # disables line buffering

print(sys.stdin.read(1))

I forgot to add, you probably want to return the terminal to normal afterwards

Or something like this perhaps? (based on this)```py
import sys
if sys.platform == "nt":
# Windows
import msvcrt
def read_char(prompt):
print(prompt, end="")
return msvcrt.getch()
else:
# MacOS / Linux
import termios
def read_char(prompt):
print(prompt, end="")
old_settings = termios.tcgetattr(0)
try:
tty.setraw(0)
char = sys.stdin.read(1)
finally:
termios.tcsetattr(0, termios.TCSADRAIN, old_settings)
return ch

print(read_char("Enter a character: "))

[cosmic grail]

may u point where is enter botton in the code here?

the one it says (1)) ?

[unreal gale]

it has nothing to do with the enter key, it disables line buffering (= your terminal not sending input until enter is typed)

If you want to read input until a specific character, you can make a function like this: ```py
def input_until(char):
text = ""
while True:
current = sys.stdin.read(1)
if current == char:
break
text += current
return text

If you don't mind installing packages, I would recommend using this instead: https://pypi.org/project/readchar/

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