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. On Windows/DOS, one might want to use msvcrt. The msvcrt module gives you access to a number of functions in the Microsoft Visual C/C++ Runtime Library (MSVCRT): … Read more
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)): … Read more
Using a select call is shorter, and should be much more portable import sys, select print “You have ten seconds to answer!” i, o, e = select.select( [sys.stdin], [], [], 10 ) if (i): print “You said”, sys.stdin.readline().strip() else: print “You said nothing!”