Alan Gauld has also been trying to help me by direct email. But his suggested
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import msvcrt
c = 0
while True:
c += 1
if msvcrt.kbhit():
if msvcrt.getch() == 'k':
break
else: continue
print c
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didn't work for me either. I was just about to tell him so, when I
remembered to try to run it not using IDLE, i.e., by just clicking on
the script icon (to use the console--is that the term?) I knew I'd
have to add a line something like
raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
and when I did the script ran just as I'd hoped!
My thanks to Kent and Alan.
Dick Moores
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