Sleep timer but still responsive?

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JohnnyFive wrote:
> 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.

Which version of Python are you using? time.sleep(x) can be interrupted
in Python 2.6.

If the version you're using can't be interrupted then you could use
multiple sleeps:

# Wait for a total of 10 secs.
for i in range(10):
     time.sleep(1)