Having difficulty with threads and input()

[deanhystad]

How about using ctrl+c? If you are running from a console, ctrl+c raises a KeyboardInterrupt that your program can catch using try/except. Works for windows, osx, linux.

from time import sleep

print("Nighty night")
try:
    sleep(10)  # Standin for whatever work your script does
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    pass
print("Time to wake up")  # Standin for the cleanup.