How to make program hold for user input

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I need to display a set of instructions to the user that, upon reading, they press space to continue onto the experiment. I tried using Keyboard.waitKeys(), but it wasn’t behaving the way I expected it to so I’m trying other things. Currently, my solution looks like this:

stimuli_key_resp = keyboard.Keyboard() 
keys = stimuli_key_resp.getKeys(['t', 'escape', 'space'], waitRelease = False)
while continueRoutine:
    t = trialClock.getTime()
    tThisFlip = win.getFutureFlipTime(clock=trialClock)
    tThisFlipGlobal = win.getFutureFlipTime(clock=None)
    frameN = frameN + 1 

    if (instructions.status == NOT_STARTED and tThisFlip >= 0.0 - frame_tolerance):
        instructions.frameNStart = frameN
        instructions.tStart = t
        instructions.tStartRefresh = tThisFlipGlobal
        win.timeOnFlip(instructions, "tStartRefresh")
        instructions.setAutoDraw(True)
    if instructions.status == STARTED and 'space' in keys:
        instructions.tStop = t
        instructions.frameNStop = frameN
        win.timeOnFlip(instructions, "tStopRefresh")
        instructions.setAutoDraw(False)

But doing this, the program never responds to a space being pressed and the only way to get out of the instruction screen is to close the experiment. Can someone give me suggestions on how to accomplish this?