How do I make python wait for a pressed key?

python wait keyboard-input
Janusz picture Janusz · Jun 11, 2009 · Viewed 968.3k times · Source

I want my script to wait until the user presses any key.

How do I do that?

Answer

riza picture riza · Jul 16, 2009

In Python 3 use input():

input("Press Enter to continue...")

In Python 2 use raw_input(): 

raw_input("Press Enter to continue...")

This only waits for the user to press enter though.

One might want to use msvcrt ((Windows/DOS only) The msvcrt module gives you access to a number of functions in the Microsoft Visual C/C++ Runtime Library (MSVCRT)):

import msvcrt as m
def wait():
    m.getch()

This should wait for a key press.

Additional info:

in Python 3 raw_input() does not exist

In Python 2 input(prompt) is equivalent to eval(raw_input(prompt))

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