how to interrupt time.sleep ?

[Thomas Heller]

BOOGIEMAN <BOOGIEMANPN at YAHOO.COM> writes:

> I have line  "time.sleep(60)"  in my code
>
> How do I cancel waiting 60 seconds if I want to continue with program 
> imediately  ? Like "Press some button if you don't want to wait"
>
> If it can't be canceled what's the other solution to 
> "wait certain time/or press any button to continue" problem ?

On windows at least, pressing ^C interrupts time.sleep().

print "Press ^C if you don't want to wait"
try:
    time.sleep(60)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    pass

Thomas