Question

I’ve been using the input function as a way to pause my scripts:

print("something")
wait = input("Press Enter to continue.")
print("something")

Is there a formal way to do this?

Answer 1

It seems fine to me (or raw_input() in Python 2.X). Alternatively, you could use time.sleep() if you want to pause for a certain number of seconds.

import time
print("something")
time.sleep(5.5)    # Pause 5.5 seconds
print("something")