Python, Press Any Key To Exit

Question

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 a error. I would like a code that just closes your script without using a error.

Does anyone have a 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

Answer 1

If you are on windows then the cmd pause command should work, although it reads 'press any key to continue'

import os
os.system('pause')

The linux alternative is read, a good description can be found here

Answer 2

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()