[Tutor] Built-in function to check a character is ASCII character?

[ammar azif]

Is there any Built-in function to check whether  a character is an ASCII character?

I am trying to learn event driven programming in python. Heres my code:

while 1:
    key=msvcrt.getch()
    if key==255:
        continue
    else:
        print "the key is ", key


But the output is:-

the key is  ÿ
the key is  ÿ
the key is  ÿ
the key is  ÿ
the key is  ÿ
the key is  ÿ
the key is  ÿ
the key is  ÿ(infinite loop)

Why is this happening ? what is the  ÿ character?





 
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