I'm writing a simple alarm utility in Python.

#!/usr/bin/python

import time
import subprocess
import sys

alarm1 = int(raw_input("How many minutes (alarm1)? "))

while (1):
    time.sleep(60*alarm1)
    print "Alarm1"
    sys.stdout.flush();
    doit = raw_input("Continue (Y/N)?[Y]: ")
    print "Input",doit
    if doit == 'N' or doit=='n':
        print "Exiting....."
        break

I want to flush or discard all the key strokes that were entered while the script was sleeping and only accept the key strokes after the raw_input() is executed.