Breaking out of a while loop with a key press?

[Gilles Lenfant]

"Richard" <richardd at hmgcc.gov.uk> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> Hi,
>
> Can anyone suggest a simple way of detecting a key press and existing the
> program? I have a program which at the moment uses a while True:
statement.
> However this is not ideal as I have to close down the console window to
> exist the program. Can anyone tell me the proper way of doing this? So
that
> a CTRL-C, for example, can quit the program correctly?

Catch the KeyboardInterrupt exception.

>
> Cheers
>
> Richard
>
>