What is the best way to keep a python loop running until stopped by the user?

Question

In python, would the best way to keep a loop running until stopped by the user be as follows?

while not KeyboardInterrupt:

# The code I want repeated until I specify it to stop

break

I am new to code and would appreciate the help.

Possible duplicate of [How to kill a while loop with a keystroke?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13180941/how-to-kill-a-while-loop-with-a-keystroke) — Priyansh Goel, May 01 '16 at 12:25

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

1

Taken from Keith's answer

try:
    while True:
        do_something()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    pass

I suggest that you read up on exceptions and exception handling so you undertand what is different between the above and your posted code

edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

Community

answered May 01 '16 at 12:23

user3252497

There is no point in answering a duplicate with an answer that was in the dupe target. You can instead, flag it as a duplicate and it will probably be closed with a link to the other question. – zondo May 01 '16 at 12:38

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 01 '16 at 12:43

0

while True:
//do your thing

This would help

edited May 01 '16 at 12:43

Suever

answered May 01 '16 at 12:22

Priyansh Goel

2 Answers2