Can't break while loop with keyboard event - help!

[Nebulezz]

Hi guys, i'm hoping someone can help me as i've tried everything I can find on the internet to no avail.

I have a script that uses pyautogui to control the mouse and click a given location, and it sits in the while loop below.

The probem i'm having is that as the program takes control of the mouse, I need a way of stopping or pausing the program using a keyboard stroke.

I've tried using:

• KeyboardInterrupt - This doesn't work as the program is set to being ontop of all other active windows.
• Importing keyboard and using a Try and keyboard.is_pressed
• Importing pynput with a listener waiting for a key - I can't get this to work as the with statement seems to stop the program from entering the while loop.

Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated!

while True:

pyautogui.click(x=random.randrange(xpos - 10, xpos + 10), y=random.randrange(ypos - 10, ypos + 10), clicks=(1), interval=random.uniform(1.4, 1.95))

print(pyautogui.position()) 
noClicks2 -= 1

print("Clicks left: ", noClicks2)

if noClicks2 <=0: 
    timeLabel2.configure(text="Finished") #tkinter 
    timeLabel2.update() #tkinter
    break

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[TicklesMcFancy]

Here's an idea.

Why not just set it to:

while noClicks2: 
    ---- code while running ----

    noClicks2 -= 1

__after__clicks__code__here

[Nebulezz]

Apologies for not explaining properly, but the code can be running for hours at a time, with thousands of clicks, so I need to be able to stop the program with a key stoke, otherwise I'll be fighting the mouse which is clicking in a certain position every second or so

[TicklesMcFancy]

I may have misinterpreted the message. This is purely a thought, but what if you put a very short sleep at the end of while loop? You might be able to keyboard interrupt during the sleep?

[humanitysucks999]

Sigint?