(Unix only, Optional) The termios
module provides an interface to the Unix
terminal control facilities. It can be used to control most aspects of
the terminal communication ports.
In Example 12-8, this module is used to temporarily disable
keyboard echo (which is controlled by the ECHO
flag
in the third flag field).
Example 12-8. Using the termios Module
File: termios-example-1.py import termios, TERMIOS import sys fileno = sys.stdin.fileno() attr = termios.tcgetattr(fileno) orig = attr[:] print "attr =>", attr[:4] # flags # disable echo flag attr[3] = attr[3] & ~TERMIOS.ECHO try: termios.tcsetattr(fileno, TERMIOS.TCSADRAIN, attr) message = raw_input("enter secret message: ") print finally: # restore terminal settings termios.tcsetattr(fileno, TERMIOS.TCSADRAIN, orig) print "secret =>", repr(message)attr => [1280, 5, 189, 35387]
enter secret message:
secret => 'and now for something completely different'
3.142.12.207