With this snippet you can exit a loop by just pressing a single key (or detect a single key press for other purposes).
Python, 25 lines
Download
Copy to clipboard1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 | import msvcrt
while 1:
print 'Testing..'
# body of the loop ...
if msvcrt.kbhit():
if ord(msvcrt.getch()) == 27:
break
"""
Here the key used to exit the loop was <ESC>, chr(27).
You can use the following variation for special keys:
if ord(msvcrt.getch()) == 0:
if ord(msvcrt.getch()) == 59: # <F1> key
break
With the following, you can discover the codes for the special keys:
if ord(msvcrt.getch()) == 0:
print ord(msvcrt.getch())
break
Use getche() if you want the key pressed be echoed."""
|
