#!/usr/bin/env python import thread import time try: from msvcrt import getch except ImportError: def getch(): import sys, tty, termios fd = sys.stdin.fileno() old_settings = termios.tcgetattr(fd) try: tty.setraw(sys.stdin.fileno()) ch = sys.stdin.read(1) finally: termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, old_settings) return ch char = None def keypress(): global char char = getch() thread.start_new_thread(keypress, ()) while True: if char is not None: print "Key pressed is " + char break print "Program is running" time.sleep(5)