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"Listen" for key press

gman2k1
I am a python noob and was wondering how to "listen" for a keystroke. In other words, I want a program to run, but when I press a key (a regular key, not Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Break), I want the program to stop. I would like to implement this in a try..except structure.

If anyone has a code fragment to illustrate, please include that also.

Thanks...
Mar 12 '07 #1
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dshimer
136 Expert 100+
If you happen to be working in windows, check out this documentation for the msvcrt module, I tried this and it seemed to work great. If not there is what seems like a cross-platform getch recipe in the python cookbook, though I haven't tried this one.
Mar 12 '07 #2

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