Homme, James wrote:
Hi,
So far, I know about raw_input as a way to get something from the keyboard into
my program. My question is this. Let's say I am trying to subtract time from a
value as though someone is thinking and they want to type in a move. If my
program prints a prompt to the screen, while the person is thinking, is it
still running, or is it asleep?
raw_input blocks for as long as it takes for the user to type something and
press Enter. If they take an hour, raw_input will wait an hour.
I assume you want to display something like this:
Enter your next move: 0:30
where the "0:30" is the time remaining, and is constantly updating. When it
hits zero, the function returns whether the user has typed anything or not.
Oooh, this is a cunning problem! I like it. But I have no idea how to solve
it. I'm going to have to do some research, in my Copious Spare Time.
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Steven
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