> I've not used it myself, but I believe the KeyboadInterrupt is only > generated by one _specific_ keypress. You mentioned that you pressed a key > - did you try Control-C? Actually, I did, using Win 7 - and I put exit() in place of pass. I tried ctrl-c, ctrl-x, esc, and del. Windows doesn't seem to respond to anything. The prog just goes to the end Jim