How to Detect 'ESC' keypress while expecting input() from user

Question

I tried using

if msvcrt.kbhit():
  key_stroke = msvcrt.getch()

  if key_stroke==chr(27).encode(): #b'\x1b'
    print ("Esc key pressed")
    sys.exit()`

before and after the data=input('Enter a value:') but the Esc key_stroke not getting detected

That is, while expecting an input from user with input() function, if the user press Esc key, I want to do sys.exit()

Answer 1

Try this:

import sys
import msvcrt
def func():
    print ('Enter user input:')
    while True:
        if msvcrt.kbhit():
            key_stroke = msvcrt.getche()
            if key_stroke==chr(27).encode():
                print ("Esc key pressed")
                sys.exit()
            else:
                #print (str(key_stroke).split("'")[1],"key pressed")
                i=str(key_stroke).split("'")[1]+input()
                print ("User input:",i)
                            
func()

Note: I am using getche instead of getch, it is similar to getch but prints the key that is pressed.