On Nov 11, 3:23 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have no knowledge of Console, but under Windows I was able to hack > this (see bottom of post) together using only one non-portable library > -- msvcrt. Oh, and an ActiveState 2.4 build. I'm not touching 2.5 until > a lot of 3rd party stuff is rebuilt and installers are available. >
And here I am thinking this was going to be an easy project. I haven't had a chance to work on this since my last message, but that example should be a good thing, since now i have an example of how threads /should/ be done. I was pretty much just guessing so far. > > > newTime = time.time() > > timeLeft[turn] -= newTime - oldTime[turn] I'd duplicated > > this form, but it is wrong... when the clock swaps it > will immediately decrement the current clock by the difference since it > was last updated! > > > if float(seconds[0]) < 10: seconds[0] = '0' + > > seconds[0][:-1] > > if float(seconds[1]) < 10: seconds[1] = '0' + > > seconds[1][:-1] I've not handled leading 0s on the seconds field (I > > tried, but can't > figure out how to specify zero-filled field width for floats -- works > for integers) > I ran into the same problem, thats why I did it the way I did, instead of continuing to wrestle with python's string formatting. > > go = True > > while go: Why define "go" when it never changes Whenever I make infinite loops, I put in a control variable so I could stop it if I want, which I was planning on doing, when the time runs out or something like that. > > Note that I lock access to timeLeft and side to ensure they don't > change in the middle of access; may not have been critical, but why risk > it (and if the code gets expanded so the changes take more time -- or > multiple look-ups using side). > > getch() doesn't seem to return a value for <ctrl-c>, so I used > <ctrl-z> > > Uh, it also updates the time with an invalid negative before it > exits <G> Now to see if I can get this to work for my self with an example. This is more a learning project than something that has to be done. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
