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There are some points in my experiment control code where the program
does something for an arbitrary length of time (e.g, waits while the
operator manually adjusts a laser's alignment).  For these situations,
I wanted to be able to loop until the user pressed a key.  This is a
simple enough idea, but the implementation turned out to be
complicated enough for me to spin it out as a stand-alone module.

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