In my program I am trying to take the chat from a website and printing it on my console. While that's going on I'm using raw_input to get chat from whoever is using it. My problem is that raw_input pauses the rest of the script until i say something or press enter. Is there a simple way to fix this?
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You have to multithread. One thread for user input and another for the background tasks.
The documentation is a bit complex (I'm pretty confused by it), but it's a start: http://docs.python.org/library/threading.html
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darkdoughnut
nah multi threading is a little to skilled for my level :p but i'll try to use that as last resort
Blender
It's quite intuitive if you ask me. Look at this example: wellho.net/solutions/python-python-threads-a-first-example.html
You may also want to look into the curses module: http://docs.python.org/library/curses.html
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Colin Emonds
You don't need to install it.
import curses is all you need to do, curses ships with Python.