"Listen" for key press

[gman2k1]

I am a python noob and was wondering how to "listen" for a keystroke. In other words, I want a program to run, but when I press a key (a regular key, not Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Break), I want the program to stop. I would like to implement this in a try..except structure.

If anyone has a code fragment to illustrate, please include that also.

Thanks...

[dshimer]

If you happen to be working in windows, check out this documentation for the msvcrt module, I tried this and it seemed to work great. If not there is what seems like a cross-platform getch recipe in the python cookbook, though I haven't tried this one.