[Tutor] Waiting for input.

[Danny Yoo]

rOn Tue, 30 Oct 2001 kromag@nsacom.net wrote:

> (I just found the range() function, so this will change soon! :-) It kinda 
> works like I want it to at this point....)
> 
> I would like to have the following function pause between loops:

By "pause", do you want your program to wait until you've pressed a key,
or do you mean something like "wait for a few seconds"?

If it's the "Press any key to continue" kind of pause, you might want to
try raw_input():

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>>> raw_input("Press Enter to continue: ")
Press Enter to continue:
''
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The idea is that we use raw_input() just to force the program to wait for
the user to interact with our program.
 

If it's the "wait for a few seconds" kind of pause, you may want to look
at time.sleep():

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>>> print time.sleep.__doc__
sleep(seconds)

Delay execution for a given number of seconds.  The argument may be
a floating point number for subsecond precision.
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Hope this helps!