Timeout on read()?

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

lec wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to implement timeout on read?
> 
> eg.
> 
> answer = sys.stdin.readline()
> 
> but I want it to timeout after 30 seconds.

Have a look at the select module. For an example how this
can be used for a timeout (but for socket.read()) see:
  http://www.timo-tasi.org/python/timeoutsocket.py

hope-that-helps-ly y'rs
Peter
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