title: Python cross-platform listening for keypresses?
body: <p>I need to listen for certain keypresses in a python terminal program without pausing execution with <code>raw_input</code>. I've seen people use a few windows specific ways of listening for keystrokes and I've seen people use large modules like tkinter and pygame which I want to avoid.</p>
  <p>Is there a lightweight module out there that does this cross platform (at least ubuntu, windows, mac)? or is there a way to use just the event system from tkinter, pygame, etc...?</p>
  <p>If not, how should I approach tackling this? My first thought is to redirect stdin to another process and keep checking to see if it contains one of my event keys.</p>
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  <h2>edit</h2>
  <p>Thank you @unutbu for taking the time to mark this question that is 3 years old and successfully answered as a duplicate of another question whose answers do not apply to this question because I specifically asked about a non-blocking solution.</p>