Pause a script before termination

Philip Semanchuk philip at semanchuk.com
Wed Nov 11 11:58:58 EST 2009


On Nov 11, 2009, at 11:47 AM, noydb wrote:

> On Nov 11, 11:43 am, noydb <jenn.du... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I want to pause my script before it terminates, just so a user can
>> have a moment to read some print statements I include at the end.   
>> How
>> can this be accomplished?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Never mind, duh, found my answer now
>
> import time
> time.sleep(10)  #10 second pause

Good for you for tracking that down.

However, might I suggest that you replace that with a message like  
"Press <Enter> to clear this message and end the program"?





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