In contrast to java or c python seems not be able to use a random delimiter.
In java, you can do: Code: import java.util.Scanner Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in).useSeperator(" ") int a = sc.nextInt() But in python there seems to be no other option then waiting until you see a newline. I wrote a script which should allow more freedom. Code: #!/usr/bin/python def readtoken(source=None, delim=" \n\t\r"): if source is None: from sys import stdin source = stdin r = [] c = delim + " " while c not in delim: c = source.read(1) r.append(c) return "".join(r) if __name__ == "__main__": for _ in range(5): print(readtoken()) It works a bit but still requires the user to press enter. Is there some way around it, which is platform independant? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list