How to make a python script wait for a pressed key?

Question

I want my python script to wait until the user presses any key.
How do I do that?

Answer 1

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))

Answer 2

One way to do this in Python 2, is to use raw_input():

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

In python3 it's just input()