how to stop a loop with ESC key? [newbie]

[Peter Hansen]

mo wrote:
> "Fredrik Lundh"  wrote:
> 
>>works for me, when running it from a stock CPython interpreter in a
> 
> windows
> 
>>console window, with focus set to that window.
>>what environment are you using?
> 
> 
> I use IDLE 1.0.3, Python 2.3.4
> The same problem is when running in a win console.

And do you see the "." printing in the console window?

What do you get if you change the code so you print the getch() value?

e.g.

if msvcrt.kbhit():
     c = msvcrt.getch()
     print 'key', ord(c)

Does that ever print anything?

-Peter