How to timeout when waiting for raw_input from user ?
Paul Rubin
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Sat Dec 5 00:23:23 EST 2009
northof40 <shearichard at gmail.com> writes:
> I'm thinking of some logic where a raw_input call is executed and then
> if more than X seconds elapses before the prompt is replied to the
> process writes a message "Sorry too slow" (or similar).
The simplest way to do this is with the alarm function and a signal
handler. See the docs for the signal module.
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