On 01/05/17 19:28, Michael C wrote: > Hi all, I found out that one way to press ESC to kill the script was to > use my previous script language, AutoHotKey and this is how it works: > > ## When ESC is pressed, runs the function 'kill' > Esc::kill()
> Is there a way to write it in Python on windows? Yes, of course but it is very OS dependant and you would need different code on Windows, MacOS and *nix. Its also an incredibly risky thing to do because you have to catch the keystroke at the highest level of the event management system which means that any program that uses the ESC key is now broken. To illustrate, lets assume you are running a tool that decides it wants to format your hard drive. It pops up a window saying it will do so in 5s unless you hit escape. You hit escape and your script dutifully intercepts it and kills your own app, meanwhile the tool sees no Escape and so proceeds to format your hard drive. Is that really what you want? There are usually better behaved ways of doing things which will obey the conventions of the OS. But if you are absolutely sure you want to take the risk of breaking your computer we can talk about how you might proceed. It will not be trivial however and nowhere near as short as your existing AutoHotKey code. Also it will depend to some extent on whether your program that you want to kill is itself a GUI or a CLI. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
