[SOLVED] Python, Press Any Key To Exit

Python, Press Any Key To Exit

So, as the title says, I want a proper code to close my python script. So far, I've used input('Press Any Key To Exit'), but what that does, is generate an error. I want a code that closes your script without using an error.

Does anyone have an idea? Google gives me the input option, but I don't want that It closes using this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Python27/test", line 1, in <module>
    input('Press Any Key To Exit')
  File "<string>", line 0
    
   ^
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

Solution

This syntax error is caused by using input on Python 2, which will try to eval whatever is typed in at the terminal prompt. If you've pressed enter then Python will essentially try to eval an empty string, eval(""), which causes a SyntaxError instead of the usual NameError.

If you're happy for "any" key to be the enter key, then you can simply swap it out for raw_input instead:

raw_input("Press Enter to continue")

Note that on Python 3 raw_input was renamed to input.

For users finding this question in search, who really want to be able to press any key to exit a prompt and not be restricted to using enter, you may consider to use a 3rd-party library for a cross-platform solution. I recommend the helper library readchar which can be installed with pip install readchar. It works on Linux, macOS, and Windows and on either Python 2 or Python 3.

import readchar
print("Press Any Key To Exit")
k = readchar.readchar()