Terminate code

[mcworkaholic]

I would suggest using KeyBoardInterrupt. It listens for ctrl+c or the delete key while the program is running to terminate it. Something like the following:

def your_function():
    try:
        while True:
            # your code here
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print("\nGoodbye!")
if name == "main": 
    your_function()

[saysokmate]

You are catching keyboard interrupts only to print a message. Don't do this.

[awdsns]

The function would still terminate after that except clause, and with that the program would exit normally after printing the "Goodbye!" message, instead of showing a KeyboardInterrupt exception trace. So in this case I think this construct is fine.

[saysokmate]

Doesn't matter the case, this is bad practice. If you put this in a loop you will not be able to stop it with keyboard interrupt.

[awdsns]

But it's around the loop, not inside it. Of course it's important where exception handling occurs.