how to interrupt time.sleep ?

[BOOGIEMAN]

I have line "time.sleep(60)" in my code

How do I cancel waiting 60 seconds if I want to continue with program
imediately ? Like "Press some button if you don't want to wait"

If it can't be canceled what's the other solution to
"wait certain time/or press any button to continue" problem ?

[Dan Sommers]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:37:28 +0100,
BOOGIEMAN <BO*********@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

I have line "time.sleep(60)" in my code
How do I cancel waiting 60 seconds if I want to continue with program
imediately ? Like "Press some button if you don't want to wait" If it can't be canceled what's the other solution to
"wait certain time/or press any button to continue" problem ?

Use the select module.

HTH,
Dan

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Dan Sommers
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[Peter Hansen]

BOOGIEMAN wrote:

I have line "time.sleep(60)" in my code

How do I cancel waiting 60 seconds if I want to continue with program
imediately? Like "Press some button if you don't want to wait"
You cannot.
If it can't be canceled what's the other solution to
"wait certain time/or press any button to continue" problem ?

Generally you can just use a much shorter sleep time, and a loop
that checks for the condition which interests you.

while True:
if userWantsToContinue():
break
time.sleep(0.25) # wait a short time
The implementation of userWantsToContinue() depends of course on
what you want it to do. If you need help with that, be sure to
indicate what platform you're on so the answers can be meaningful
if the solution (as is likely in this case) is not platform-
independent.

-Peter

[Thomas Heller]

BOOGIEMAN <BO*********@YAHOO.COM> writes:

I have line "time.sleep(60)" in my code

How do I cancel waiting 60 seconds if I want to continue with program
imediately ? Like "Press some button if you don't want to wait"

If it can't be canceled what's the other solution to
"wait certain time/or press any button to continue" problem ?

On windows at least, pressing ^C interrupts time.sleep().

print "Press ^C if you don't want to wait"
try:
time.sleep(60)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
pass

Thomas