On Jan 29, 9:33 am, Andreas Tawn <andreas.t...@ubisoft.com> wrote: > > On Jan 28, 4:55 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@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. > > How about this? Responds to ctrl+c, but still sleeps. > > import time > > def responsiveSleep(n): > while n > 0: > time.sleep(1) > n -= 1 > > Cheers, > > Drea
Thanks for the ideas! Maybe it's just my computer, but using your solution still causes the prompt to become unresponsive during the sleeps. I am using 2.6.4 btw. It's not a major deal though, I just thought there had to be a way to do this fairly easily. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
