So I've been doing a little bit of reading up on how to exit a while loop by the user pressing the enter key and I've come up with the following:
import sys, select, os
switch = 1
i = 1
while switch == 1:
os.system('cls' if os.name == 'nt' else 'clear')
print "I'm doing stuff. Press Enter to stop me!"
print i
while sys.stdin in select.select([sys.stdin], [], [], 0)[0]:
line = raw_input()
if not line:
print "Finished! =]"
switch = 0
else:
print "Finished! =]"
switch = 0
i = i+1
Is there a way to tidy this up? In particular the "if not line" and the following "else" look messy. Can they be combined into one? A better alternative to using "switch"?
Initially if I typed a bunch of characters and then hit enter it didn't stop the loop. I would have to press enter again. The if not and else components are intended to set it up such that it would exit on the first press of enter.