Python – Infinite while loop, break on user input

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You can use non-blocking read from stdin:

import sys
import os
import fcntl
import time

fl = fcntl.fcntl(sys.stdin.fileno(), fcntl.F_GETFL)
fcntl.fcntl(sys.stdin.fileno(), fcntl.F_SETFL, fl | os.O_NONBLOCK)
while True:
    print("Waiting for user input")
    try:
        stdin = sys.stdin.read()
        if "\n" in stdin or "\r" in stdin:
            break
    except IOError:
        pass
    time.sleep(1)

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