need help to end loop using keyboard shortcut

Question

###
Hi guys, I need help to end the run_porgram() loop using a keyboard shortcut since my program is running in another window other than terminal using Ctrl+C is not working, I can set how many times it should run but sometimes I need to stop it earlier.
###
import time
import pyautogui, sys
from time import sleep

def search_cycle_increase():
pyautogui.click(1078, 799) # search
sleep(0.8)
pyautogui.click(1183, 743) # buy now
sleep(0.12)
pyautogui.click(724, 530) # ok
sleep(0.12)
pyautogui.click(123, 215) # back
sleep(0.12)
pyautogui.press('k')
sleep(0.12)

def search_cycle_decrease():
pyautogui.click(1078, 799) # search
sleep(0.8)
pyautogui.click(1183, 743) # buy now
sleep(0.12)
pyautogui.click(724, 530) # ok
sleep(0.12)
pyautogui.click(123, 215) # back
sleep(0.12)
pyautogui.press('l')
sleep(0.12)

def cycle_complete():
for i in range(0,5):
search_cycle_increase()

for i in range(0,5):
search_cycle_decrease()

def run_program():
run = input("How many times you want to run the program? ")
x = 0
while x<=int(run):
sleep(3)
x+=1
cycle_complete()

run_program()

Answer 1

The documentation is not clear about the 'fail-safes' feature, wich should be enabled by default (but the details differ according on where it's explained):

https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html#fail-safes

So, you could:
1) try moving the mouse cursor in any (primary, pyautogui seems to not work with multiple monitors) screen corner, or only in top-left corner: that should throw an exception ans stop the script running...

2) if not working (I cannot try, as I don't successed to install pyautogui), maybe the 'fail-safes' feature is not enabled by default, and you could try to set it explicitly

pyautogui.FAILSAFE = True

... and retry to do the 1)

3) if you don't have enough time to move the mouse pointer (as it's moved by pyautogui), you could try to set up a 2.5 second pause after each PyAutoGUI call (as explained in the second link above):

pyautogui.PAUSE = 2.5

... and retry 1) and/or 2)

Hope this would help ;)

Answer 2

thank you for your answers!

Answer 3

pyautogui doesn't handle user keystroke... maybe you could look at tkinter module documentation (wich should be able to do that, and is a pyautogui dependency ^^)