Simultaneous input / output in python shell script... Threads?

[wsaenotsock]

I'm writing a single player game as beginner project to learn python, and I need to have the user able to enter commands asynchronously from events occuring in the game (like a MUD does). However this doesn't use telnet or networking, it's just a script. I haven't found much information about how to do this except that threads might be involved. - One thread to grab user input and place it into a command Que - One thread to run game events on a sleep interval Is that the best way to do it?

 

[degibson]

You could use a periodic alarm + select

http://docs.python.org/library/select.html
http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/lib/timer-objects.html

def OnTimer():
  ins, outs, exceptions = select.select([sys.stdin], [], [], 0)
  if sys.stdin in ins:
    print "You printed ", sys.stdin.readline()

t = Timer(0.1, OnTimer)
t.Start()

Sounds like a fun project!