northof40 <shearich...@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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list