[Beginner] - Hanging in the code, can't figure out what's wrong

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/04/2016 23:37, Michael Selik wrote:
> I might be overlooking something, but raw_input (Python 2) and input
> (Python 3) won't return the input from sys.stdin until you type ENTER. Or
> did I misunderstand the question?
>
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 6:30 PM BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
>
>> On 02/04/2016 23:16, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>>> On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 6:09:13 PM UTC-4, BartC wrote:
>>>> On 02/04/2016 22:59, Loop.IO wrote:
>>>>> Hey
>>>>>
>>>>> So I built a keylogger using python as a test, got the code from the
>> tutorial online, I want to improve on it to make it more automated, but the
>> issue I'm having is it won't create the file until I press return, any
>> clues where I'm going wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> If I press return it makes the batch file, otherwise it just hangs.
>>>>
>>>>>        name=raw_input ('C:\\Documents\\PythonCoding\\')+'launch2.bat'
>>>>
>>>> You're asking for a file name to be entered. So that if ABC is pressed,
>>>> followed by Enter, it will use:
>>>>
>>>>          C:\Documents\PythonCoding\ABClaunch2.bat
>>>
>>> That line of code will prompt the user:
>>>
>>>       C:\Documents\PythonCoding\
>>>
>>> then the user enters ABC<enter>:
>>>
>>>       C:\Documents\PythonCoding\ABC
>>>
>>> and raw_input returns "ABC", so name becomes "ABClaunch2.bat".
>>
>> Yes, of course. I ran the code and picked up the wrong line even though
>> I printed out 'name'!
>>
>> But, it does look as though that path is supposed to form part of the
>> resulting filename.
>>
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>> Bartc
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>>

BartC is renowned for knowing nothing about Python by his own 
admittance, and would you please not top post on the list.

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Mark Lawrence