(Nonfunctional) Threaded game example

#An example of the threading module
#This "Game" doesn't really work, is more of a tech demo
from threading import Thread
import msvcrt
import time
import sys
import random

log = ""

def out(s, spaces=True):
    global log
    if spaces: extra = " "*(79-len(s))
    else: extra = ""

    sys.stdout.write("\r{0}{1}".format(s,extra))
    sys.stdout.flush()
    log += s+"\n"

out("It's time.")

timer  = 0
pts = 0


def up():
    out("UP")
def down():
    out("DOWN")
def left():
    out("LEFT")
def right():
    out("RIGHT")
def dtime():
    out("Seconds Active: {0}".format(timer))
def points():
    out("Points: {0}".format(pts))


events = {
'w': up,
'a': left,
's': down,
'd': right,
't': dtime,
'p': points,
}



def time_manager():
    global timer
    while True:
        time.sleep(1)
        timer += 1

def keyEvent():
    while True:
        key = msvcrt.getch()
        if key in events.keys():
            events[key]()
        elif key.encode('hex') == '03':
            with open('Log.txt', 'w') as ld:
                ld.write(log)
            raise KeyboardInterrupt

def getEvent():
    mats = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
    event = ''.join(random.choice(mats) for i in range(random.randint(3,7)))
    out("A wild fucking {0} is totes about to fuck you up.".format(event))


def randomEvent():
    while True:
        e = random.randint(1,100)
        if 1 <= e <= 5:
            getEvent()
        time.sleep(1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        Thread(target = keyEvent).start()
        Thread(target = time_manager).start()
        Thread(target = randomEvent).start()
    except Exception, e:
        out("Error: {0}".format(e))