[Tutor] Want to use msvcrt.getch() but can't import msvcrt (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Sat Jul 17 19:16:48 CEST 2004


[Dick Moores]

A week ago or so I asked how I might enable pausing my timer.py. Alan Gauld suggested looking at the mscvrt module (which is available for Windows) and mscvrt.getch(). He also referred me to a page of his tutorial, <http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/tutor2/tutevent.htm>

This seems to be just what I'm looking for, but when I import mscvrt I get "ImportError: No module named mscvrt"

Get ready to kick yourself .

import mscvrt # no good Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named mscvrt import msvcrt # good

The name only makes sense to hard-core Windows geeks; it's short for MicroSoft Visual C Runtime, and exposes some function specific to Microsoft's Visual C runtime libraries.



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