Re: Multi-threading with a simple timer?

2018-07-03 Thread David D
I have some success with this. I am not sure if this would work longer term, as in restarting it, but so far so good. Any issue with this new code? import time from threading import Thread th=Thread() class Answer(Thread): def run(self): a=input("What is your answer:") if a

Re: Multi-threading with a simple timer?

2018-07-03 Thread David D
This works, but does not do exactly what I want. When the user enters in a correct answer, the program and threading stops. Any ideas on what I should change? import time from threading import Thread class Answer(Thread): def run(self): a=input("What is your answer:") if a=

Re: Multi-threading with a simple timer?

2018-07-03 Thread David D
This works, but does not do exactly what I want. What I want to happen is : when the user enters in a correct answer, the program and threading stops. Any ideas on what I should change? import time from threading import Thread class Answer(Thread): def run(self): a=input("What

Multi-threading with a simple timer?

2018-07-02 Thread David D
Is there a SIMPLE method that I can have a TIMER count down at a user input prompt - if the user doesn't enter information within a 15 second period, it times out. I am going to be using pycharm and not the shell. Thanks in advance. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Working with dictionaries and keys help please!

2017-05-31 Thread David D
Learning about dictionaries for a database possibly in the future. On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 8:58:39 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote: > On 2017-06-01 01:29, David D wrote: > > I have a dictionary with a 10 people, the key being a number (0-10) and the > > value being the people'

Working with dictionaries and keys help please!

2017-05-31 Thread David D
I have a dictionary with a 10 people, the key being a number (0-10) and the value being the people's name. I am in the processing of Insert, Adding and deleting from the dictionary. All seems well until I delete a person and add a new one. The numbers (keys) do not change and so I am getting

working with classes, inheritance, _str_ returns and a list

2017-01-15 Thread David D
I am creating a parent class and a child class. I am inheriting from the parent with an additional attribute in the child class. I am using __str__ to return the information. When I run the code, it does exactly what I want, it returns the __str__ information. This all works great. BUT 1)