I was trying to make a while loop which would stop running when a specific key is pressed. The problem is that the loop runs infinitely. My loop:

import time
import keyboardwhile (not keyboard.is_pressed("esc")):print("in loop...")time.sleep(2)

I am using the keyboard module. What is wrong with my loop and how can I fix it? (I don't really want to use a Repeat-until or equivalent loop in Python thing in this case.)

Here is a solution which works:

import keyboard
import time
import threadingclass main:def __init__(self):# Create a run variableself.run = True# Start main thread and the break threadself.mainThread = threading.Thread(target=self.main)self.breakThread = threading.Thread(target=self.breakThread)self.mainThread.start()self.breakThread.start()def breakThread(self):print('Break thread runs')# Check if run = Truewhile True and self.run == True:if keyboard.is_pressed('esc'):self.newFunction()def main(self):print('Main thread runs')# Also check if run = True   while not keyboard.is_pressed('esc') and self.run:print('test')time.sleep(2)# Break like thisif keyboard.is_pressed('esc'):breakprint('test')time.sleep(2)def newFunction(self):self.run = Falseprint('You are in the new function!')program = main()