On Dec 5, 6:23 pm, Paul Rubin <no.em...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > 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.
Hi Paul - Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately it seems like the bit of the signal module I would need for this is not implemented for windows (AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SIGALRM'). Still no matter when I asked the question I couldn't even figure out what module might provide this functionality for any platform so it was useful knowledge for the future. Thanks again. regards Richard. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
