keyboard "interrupt"

[Arnaud Delobelle]

John Fisher wrote:
> Hi Group,

Hi John

> I have been absent a while, mainly because I have been getting better at
> figuring out my own Python problems. But not this one...
>
> I have a timed loop performing certain tasks until a total period of
> time has elapsed. I would like to be able to interrupt the loop or set
> various flags during execution via keyboard input. raw_input seems to
> just stop everything cold. I want the ability to just sacn the keyboard
> buffer and see if something is there, then proceed normally in the loop
> if there is no input in the buffer. Make sense? Totally easy? Let me
> know...

If you are on a UNIX platform, you can use the curses module.

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-curses.html

There is a link there to a tutorial, but it seems to be broken.  A
quick search finds it there:

http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/curses/

HTH

--
Arnaud