Time limit on input in Python

Asked Sep 23 '17 at 06:33

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I've searched on the internet for a number of days even my Computer Science teacher is not sure how to do this.

I'm trying to make a game where you button for 10 seconds and then it kicks you out of input after 10 seconds. I've a number of methods but it doesn't seem to work.

maxtime=9.58

start_time = time.time()
z=input()
if time.time-start_time>max_time:
   distance=g.count('1')
   print("And he crosses the line with a distance of ",distance)

edited Sep 30 '17 at 10:07

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asked Sep 23 '17 at 06:33

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This will only work with multi-threading, with one thread monitoring the elapsed time and the other waiting for the input. – philosopher Sep 23 '17 at 06:50
how can I do this – 3.14159265358979323 Sep 23 '17 at 06:52
maybe something like this? [Python 3 Timed Input](https://stackoverflow.com/q/15528939/1248974) – davedwards Sep 23 '17 at 07:15
Use https://docs.python.org/2/library/signal.html for this – philosopher Sep 23 '17 at 07:42
I'd rather use a getch function as I explained in [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/42892749/6220679) or alternatively a GUI or game lib like tkinter or pygame. – skrx Sep 23 '17 at 13:17

Time limit on input in Python

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