placid wrote: > is there a way to do this, wait for user input but dont block?
Hi, The msvcrt module should do what you want. Here is a sample: import msvcrt chr = 0 while chr != 'q': """ keep printing text """ if msvcrt.kbhit(): chr = msvcrt.getch() Keep in mind that this will only work on windows. -Farshid -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list