You could use either: s = raw_input("Please Hit a Key...")
s being the string they typed before hitting enter. or you could use print "Please hit a key..." s = sys.stdin.readline() the only reason i recommend the second is because i believe i saw in a PEP that raw_input was being depreciated at some point, however i may be wrong on that. (correction anyone?) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list