Can I get Keypress with Pycharm?

I am trying to recreate a synth in Pycharm where the user presses a key and it produces a tone, but I noticed that Pycharm console doesn't seem to work that way.  Any way around this?

import msvcrt
while True:
    pressedKey = msvcrt.getch()
    if pressedKey == 'q':    
       print "Q was pressed"
    elif pressedKey == 'x':    
       sys.exit()
    else:
       print "Key Pressed:" + str(pressedKey)