Sleep timer but still responsive?

[JohnnyFive]

On Jan 28, 4:55 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:
> Please provide more details. What do you want your program to do while  
> sleeping? What kind of actions do you want a response to?
> Do you have a GUI? A curses-based interfase?
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

My app is purely console based. I just don't want the console to lock
up (on Windows using time.sleep(x) causes the console to become
unresponsive until the timer is done), and I want people to be able to
CTRL+C to stop the script if need be (which can't be done if it's
unresponsive!).

Thanks.