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Hello all,

 

I was trying to set up a 'press any key to exit' mini-program similar to the one described here: http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/tutor2/tutevent.htm, but there seemse to be an issue with msvcrt.getch() on my computer (Windows XP Home, Python Version 2.3.4 final, IDLE version 1.0.3) when I ran it on IDLE. When I just type \[msvcrt.getch()\] at the prompt, it returns '\\xff' as shown below:

 

>>> msvcrt.getch()
'\\xff'

 

This means that when I try running the script described at the above website, a space does squat, as demonstrated below:

 

>>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hit space to end...

 

255
 255
255
 255
255
 255
 255
255
255
 255

... ##until i hit Control-C

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Documents and Settings/Cookie/Desktop/try.py", line 32, in ?
    doKeyEvent(key)
  File "C:/Documents and Settings/Cookie/Desktop/try.py", line 9, in doKeyEvent
    print ord(key)
  File "C:\\PROGRA\~1\\lib\\idlelib\\PyShell.py", line 1128, in write
    self.shell.write(s, self.tags)
  File "C:\\PROGRA\~1\\lib\\idlelib\\PyShell.py", line 1117, in write
    raise KeyboardInterrupt
KeyboardInterrupt

 

The spaces before the '255' are points when i tried to exit using a space. A minor detail about the script at the site: it doesn't work as is, so i added a colon after the if-else lines in the first module and changed all references to 'ky' to 'key' for consistency. Any ideas as to why this doesn't work?

 

Thanks in advance,

Orri

 

P.S.: I just had a thought that perhaps it was something with IDLE, and since it \*does\* work on the Python command line, i suspect that there might be an issue with IDLE's way of handling msvcrt.getch().

 

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