Canceling/interrupting raw_input

[Daniel Cer]

For what it's worth, this looks like a Windows specific problem.

The code below seems to work as expected on a Linux box. That is, 
everything terminates, including the "inputLoop", after sys.exit() is 
called, without the user needing to press 'enter' one last time.

However, if I try to run the code on Windows XP, it exhibits the exact 
same behavior you described.

#!/usr/bin/python

import thread
import time
import sys

def inputLoop():
      while 1:
              input_string = raw_input("Type something: ")
              print "You entered: ", input_string

thread.start_new_thread(inputLoop, () )

time.sleep(15)

sys.exit()

-Dan


J. W. McCall wrote:
> I'm working on a MUD server and I have a thread that gets keyboard input 
> so that you can enter commands from the command line while it's in its 
> main server loop.  Everything works fine except that if a player enters 
> the 'shutdown' command, everything shuts down, but the input thread is 
> still sitting waiting for enter to be pressed for raw_input.  After 
> enter is pressed, it exits back to the command prompt as it should.
> 
> I'm wondering if there's a way that I can make the thread stop waiting 
> for input.  Even sys.exit() still leaves it waiting.  It's not a big 
> deal, but it bugs me.
> 
> Any ideas?  Should I be using something other than raw_input?  I'm on 
> Windows2000 and running this from the DOS prompt.  I'm using Python 2.4.