John Doe wrote: > My program does not need a prompt, it just needs to wait for any > key to be pressed before it continues. This is in Windows. > > char=0 > while not char: > char=msvcrt.getch() > > That doesn't delay anything here.
Works perfectly for me. You don't need the while loop, since getch blocks until a key is pressed. Rather than making arbitrary changes to the code, try printing char after the loop exits and see what it contains. That may give you a hint as to what is going on. Also, are you using an IDE? If so, it could very well be interfering with the keyboard buffer, for its own purposes. E.g. in IDLE 2.6.2, if I call getch it *immediately* returns without blocking: >>> msvcrt.getch() '\xff' -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list