Since you're just beginning in Python, it might be a good idea to look through a tutorial and learn the basics of the language, rather than try to learn just the features you need and search for the answers on StackOverflow when you can't find something. It'll take more time, sure, but you'll get a much better understanding of the language.

Aug 3, 2022 · As blocking on keyboard input (since the input() function blocks) is frequently not what we want to do (we'd frequently like to keep doing other stuff), here's a very-stripped-down multi-threaded example to demonstrate how to keep running your main application while still reading in keyboard inputs whenever they arrive.

For interactive user input (or piped commands or redirected input) Use raw_input in Python 2.x, and input in Python 3. (These are built in, so you don't need to import anything to use them; you just have to use the right one for your version of python.) For example: user_input = raw_input("Some input please: ") More details can be found here.

Sep 20, 2009 · In Python 2, this is raw_input(prompt). open(0).read() - In Python 3, the builtin function open accepts file descriptors (integers representing operating system IO resources), and 0 is the descriptor of stdin.

Feb 15, 2018 · I am trying to have a user input whether or not they like spicy food and the output is supposed to be a boolean but I don't seem to be getting an output with my code below: def likes_spicyfood(): ...

Well, since the date of this question post, a Python library addressed this topic. pynput library, from Moses Palmer, is GREAT to catch keyboard and mouse events in a very simple way.

Jan 23, 2016 · I am trying to run a program on a jupyter notebook that accepts user input, and I cannot figure out how to get it to read standard input. For example, if I run the code with shift-enter: a = input()

How do I have a Python script that can accept user input and how do I make it read in arguments if run from the command line?

Mar 5, 2014 · I'm using Python 3.2.3 and I know I could use type() to get the type of the data but in Python all user inputs are taken as strings and I don't know how to determine whether the input is a string or Boolean or integer or float.

Mar 31, 2014 · The Python package click used for building commandline clients also comes with an implementation that allows you to get the key press events: import click key = click.getchar() It returns the key representation as Unicode character and "things like arrow keys will show up in the platform’s native escape format.".