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. … Read more
Bind raw_input to input in Python 2: try: input = raw_input except NameError: pass Now input will return a string in Python 2 as well. If you’re using six to write 2/3 compatible code then six.input() there points to raw_input() in Python 2 and input() in Python 3.
Here is a quick example of how to perform incremental completion of file system paths. I’ve modified your example, organizing it into a class where methods named complete_[name] indicate top-level commands. I’ve switched the completion function to use the internal readline buffer to determine the state of the overall completion, which makes the state logic … Read more
For Python 3.x, use input(). For Python 2.x, use raw_input(). Don’t forget you can add a prompt string in your input() call to create one less print statement. input(“GUESS THAT NUMBER!”).
You could do: i = raw_input(“Please enter name[Jack]:”) or “Jack” This way, if user just presses return without entering anything, “i” will be assigned “Jack”.