[Beginner] - Hanging in the code, can't figure out what's wrong

[Michael Selik]

I might be overlooking something, but raw_input (Python 2) and input
(Python 3) won't return the input from sys.stdin until you type ENTER. Or
did I misunderstand the question?

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 6:30 PM BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:

> On 02/04/2016 23:16, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> > On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 6:09:13 PM UTC-4, BartC wrote:
> >> On 02/04/2016 22:59, Loop.IO wrote:
> >>> Hey
> >>>
> >>> So I built a keylogger using python as a test, got the code from the
> tutorial online, I want to improve on it to make it more automated, but the
> issue I'm having is it won't create the file until I press return, any
> clues where I'm going wrong?
> >>>
> >>> If I press return it makes the batch file, otherwise it just hangs.
> >>
> >>>       name=raw_input ('C:\\Documents\\PythonCoding\\')+'launch2.bat'
> >>
> >> You're asking for a file name to be entered. So that if ABC is pressed,
> >> followed by Enter, it will use:
> >>
> >>         C:\Documents\PythonCoding\ABClaunch2.bat
> >
> > That line of code will prompt the user:
> >
> >      C:\Documents\PythonCoding\
> >
> > then the user enters ABC<enter>:
> >
> >      C:\Documents\PythonCoding\ABC
> >
> > and raw_input returns "ABC", so name becomes "ABClaunch2.bat".
>
> Yes, of course. I ran the code and picked up the wrong line even though
> I printed out 'name'!
>
> But, it does look as though that path is supposed to form part of the
> resulting filename.
>
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