How to ignore keyboard input in Python while sleeping

Question

While sleeping, I want all keyboard input to be ignored.

I tried this:

time.sleep(10)
while msvcrt.kbhit():
    flush = input()
input_code = input()

It doesn't work.

Could be similar to stackoverflow.com/questions/29523657/… — D Malan
– D Malan, Commented Jun 29, 2019 at 21:56
There is a good example on Rosetta Code on how to flush the keyboard buffer. It uses the msvcrt module as well — bunji
– bunji, Commented Jun 29, 2019 at 22:35

John Zwinck · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-30 03:35:08Z

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It should be msvcrt.getch() inside the loop, not input():

time.sleep(10)
while msvcrt.kbhit():
    msvcrt.getch()
input_code = input()

answered Jun 30, 2019 at 3:35

John Zwinck

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Can you describe more precisely what happens?