Just a little bit of a follow up on this...
If you use win32api.TerminateProcess() instead of sys.exit(), everything
works as it should on Windows. That is, there is no longer a need to hit
'enter' one last time in order to get "inputLoop" to terminate.
So, modifying the sample code I posted ear
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 c
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 si
