raw_input and timeout [duplicate]

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There’s an easy solution that doesn’t use threads (at least not explicitly): use select to know when there’s something to be read from stdin:

import sys
from select import select

timeout = 10
print "Enter something:",
rlist, _, _ = select([sys.stdin], [], [], timeout)
if rlist:
    s = sys.stdin.readline()
    print s
else:
    print "No input. Moving on..."

Edit[0]: apparently this won’t work on Windows, since the underlying implementation of select() requires a socket, and sys.stdin isn’t. Thanks for the heads-up, @Fookatchu.

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