how to stop a loop with ESC key? [newbie]

[mo]

"Fredrik Lundh"  wrote:
> works for me, when running it from a stock CPython interpreter in a
windows
> console window, with focus set to that window.
> what environment are you using?

I use IDLE 1.0.3, Python 2.3.4
The same problem is when running in a win console.
mo