On Dec 5, 12:52 pm, northof40 <shearich...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi - I'm writing a *very* simple program for my kids. It asks the user > to give it the answer to a maths question and says "right" or "wrong" > > They now want a timed version where they would only get so long to > respond to the question. > > I'm thinking of some logic where a raw_input call is executed and then > if more than X seconds elapses before the prompt is replied to the > process writes a message "Sorry too slow" (or similar). > > I can't see the wood for the trees here - what's the best way to do > this given the rather simple environment it's needed within. > > Regards > > richard.
Sorry I should said that based upon other answers I've seen to similar questions this needs to run on a windows machine (other answers suggest this is more difficult than running on *nix) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
