> I want to create a program that reads input from stdio that can prompt > a user for input while doing so without getting into problems. ... > As you can see I have commented out what I'd like to do but do not > know how to. Can I somehow halt the previous print to stdout (cat > input.txt) - if so can I then start it again, and how?
The trick (which works on Linux for sure) is to open /dev/tty and ask question/get input on/from it. fp = open('/dev/tty', 'r+') fp.write('Prompt: ') answer = fp.readline().strip() I'm not usre for other *nix-es, and on Windows this will surelly not work -- damjan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list