Press any key to continue...

[shing]

I saw another thread about this, but it said this:

import msvcrt
msvcrt.getch()

I can't quite seem to get that working on my python...

>>> import msvcrt
>>> msvcrt.getch()
'\xff'
 

[ghostdog74]

a very basic implementation is like this:

import msvcrt
while 1:
    char = msvcrt.getch()
    if char == chr(27):
        break
    print char,
    if char == chr(13):
        print
 

[shing]

so how would u make it "any key"?

not just specifying exact ascii key values?

[dshimer]

If all you want to do is pause something as simple as

def hit_continue(Prompt='Hit any key to continue'):
    raw_input(Prompt)
 

will work, and thats only if you want to make a function to do so. Otherwise just

raw_input('Hit any key to continue')

[bartonc]

If all you want to do is pause something as simple as

def hit_continue(Prompt='Hit any key to continue'):
    raw_input(Prompt)
 

will work, and thats only if you want to make a function to do so. Otherwise just

raw_input('Hit any key to continue')

Hey, D, doesn't that require input to be followed by the Enter key?

[dshimer]

Yeah, my bad, I pulled it out of a location where I was hitting Enter to continue. Oops.

[dshimer]

How about this. It seems to work, though the cursor drops to the next line.

import msvcrt
char=0
print 'hit a key'
while not char:
    char=msvcrt.getch()

[bartonc]

How about this. It seems to work, though the cursor drops to the next line.

import msvcrt
char=0
print 'hit a key'
while not char:
    char=msvcrt.getch()

That's the ticket! Now i just hope the OP stops in for the answer. Thanks, D.

[shing]

That's the ticket! Now i just hope the OP stops in for the answer. Thanks, D.

wat does getch do?

i cant understand the global module help file...

[ghostdog74]

wat does getch do?

i cant understand the global module help file...

it gets a single character from input.