In my code I loop though raw_input() to see if the user has requested to quit. My app can quit before the user quits, but my problem is the app is still alive until I enter a key to return from the blocking function raw_input(). Can I do to force raw_input() to return by maybe sending it a fake input? Could I terminate the thread that it's on? (the only data it has is a single variable called wantQuit).
解决方案
You can use this time out function that wraps your function. Here's the recipe from: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/473878/
def timeout(func, args=(), kwargs={}, timeout_duration=1, default=None):
'''This function will spwan a thread and run the given function using the args, kwargs and
return the given default value if the timeout_duration is exceeded
'''
import threading
class InterruptableThread(threading.Thread):
def __init__(self):
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
self.result = default
def run(self):
try:
self.result = func(*args, **kwargs)
except:
self.result = default
it = InterruptableThread()
it.start()
it.join(timeout_duration)
if it.isAlive():
return it.result
else:
return it.result