How to know if a user has pressed Enter using Python ?
For example :
user = raw_input("type in enter")
if user == "enter":
print "you pressed enter"
else:
print "you haven't pressed enter"
3 Answers
As @jonrsharpe said, the only way to exit properly the input function is by pressing enter. So a solution would be to check if the result contains something or not:
text = input("type in enter") # or raw_input in python2
if text == "":
print("you pressed enter")
else:
print("you typed some text before pressing enter")
The only other ways I see to quit the input function would throw an exception such as:
EOFErrorif you type^DKeyboardInterruptif you type^C- ...
You have to install a package called getkey
from getkey import getkey, key
print("press enter")
var = getkey()
if var == key.ENTER:
print("You pressed enter")
else:
print("You didnt")
It will only take a one character input though
user_input=input("ENTER SOME POSITIVE INTEGER : ")
if((not user_input) or (int(user_input)<=0)):
print("ENTER SOME POSITIVE INTEGER GREATER THAN ZERO") #print some info
import sys #import
sys.exit(0) #exit program
'''
#(not user_input) checks if user has pressed enter key without entering
# number.
#(int(user_input)<=0) checks if user has entered any number less than or
#equal to zero.
'''
