> >> My online web tutor (and book!)has a topic on event driven > >> programming which includes an example of using msvcrt.getch() > > I could not actually find it there. Can you check if that's where it > should be? mea culpa! It's in the paper book not the web version. The web version uses BASIC INKEY$ for the example, the book OTOH is all in Python so uses msvcrt... sorry. Alan G.