问题

How would you prompt the user for some input but timing out after N seconds?

Google is pointing to a mail thread about it at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-January/533215.html but it seems not to work. The statement in which the timeout happens, no matter whether it is a sys.input.readline or timer.sleep(), I always get:

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: [raw_]input expected at most 1 arguments, got 2

which somehow the except fails to catch.

回答1:

The example you have linked to is wrong and the exception is actually occuring when calling alarm handler instead of when read blocks. Better try this:

import signal
TIMEOUT = 5 # number of seconds your want for timeout

def interrupted(signum, frame):
    "called when read times out"
    print 'interrupted!'
signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, interrupted)

def input():
    try:
            print 'You have 5 seconds to type in your stuff...'
            foo = raw_input()
            return foo
    except:
            # timeout
            return

# set alarm
signal.alarm(TIMEOUT)
s = input()
# disable the alarm after success
signal.alarm(0)
print 'You typed', s

回答2:

Using a select call is shorter, and should be much more portable

import sys, select

print "You have ten seconds to answer!"

i, o, e = select.select( [sys.stdin], [], [], 10 )

if (i):
  print "You said", sys.stdin.readline().strip()
else:
  print "You said nothing!"

回答3:

Not a Python solution, but...

I ran in to this problem with a script running under CentOS (Linux), and what worked for my situation was just running the Bash "read -t" command in a subprocess. Brutal disgusting hack, I know, but I feel guilty enough about how well it worked that I wanted to share it with everyone here.

import subprocess
subprocess.call('read -t 30', shell=True)

All I needed was something that waited for 30 seconds unless the ENTER key was pressed. This worked great.

回答4:

And here's one that works on Windows

I haven't been able to get any of these examples to work on Windows so I've merged some different StackOverflow answers to get the following:


import threading, msvcrt
import sys

def readInput(caption, default, timeout = 5):
    class KeyboardThread(threading.Thread):
        def run(self):
            self.timedout = False
            self.input = ''
            while True:
                if msvcrt.kbhit():
                    chr = msvcrt.getche()
                    if ord(chr) == 13:
                        break
                    elif ord(chr) >= 32:
                        self.input += chr
                if len(self.input) == 0 and self.timedout:
                    break    


    sys.stdout.write('%s(%s):'%(caption, default));
    result = default
    it = KeyboardThread()
    it.start()
    it.join(timeout)
    it.timedout = True
    if len(it.input) > 0:
        # wait for rest of input
        it.join()
        result = it.input
    print ''  # needed to move to next line
    return result

# and some examples of usage
ans = readInput('Please type a name', 'john') 
print 'The name is %s' % ans
ans = readInput('Please enter a number', 10 ) 
print 'The number is %s' % ans

回答5:

Paul's answer did not quite work. Modified code below which works for me on

windows 7 x64
vanilla CMD shell (eg, not git-bash or other non-M$ shell)

-- nothing msvcrt works in git-bash it appears.
python 3.6

(I'm posting a new answer, because editing Paul's answer directly would change it from python 2.x-->3.x, which seems too much for an edit (py2 is still in use)

import sys, time, msvcrt

def readInput( caption, default, timeout = 5):

    start_time = time.time()
    sys.stdout.write('%s(%s):'%(caption, default))
    sys.stdout.flush()
    input = ''
    while True:
        if msvcrt.kbhit():
            byte_arr = msvcrt.getche()
            if ord(byte_arr) == 13: # enter_key
                break
            elif ord(byte_arr) >= 32: #space_char
                input += "".join(map(chr,byte_arr))
        if len(input) == 0 and (time.time() - start_time) > timeout:
            print("timing out, using default value.")
            break

    print('')  # needed to move to next line
    if len(input) > 0:
        return input
    else:
        return default

# and some examples of usage
ans = readInput('Please type a name', 'john') 
print( 'The name is %s' % ans)
ans = readInput('Please enter a number', 10 ) 
print( 'The number is %s' % ans)

回答6:

I spent a good twenty minutes or so on this, so I thought it was worth a shot to put this up here. It is directly building off of user137673's answer, though. I found it most useful to do something like this:

#! /usr/bin/env python

import signal

timeout = None

def main():
    inp = stdinWait("You have 5 seconds to type text and press <Enter>... ", "[no text]", 5, "Aw man! You ran out of time!!")
    if not timeout:
        print "You entered", inp
    else:
        print "You didn't enter anything because I'm on a tight schedule!"

def stdinWait(text, default, time, timeoutDisplay = None, **kwargs):
    signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, interrupt)
    signal.alarm(time) # sets timeout
    global timeout
    try:
        inp = raw_input(text)
        signal.alarm(0)
        timeout = False
    except (KeyboardInterrupt):
        printInterrupt = kwargs.get("printInterrupt", True)
        if printInterrupt:
            print "Keyboard interrupt"
        timeout = True # Do this so you don't mistakenly get input when there is none
        inp = default
    except:
        timeout = True
        if not timeoutDisplay is None:
            print timeoutDisplay
        signal.alarm(0)
        inp = default
    return inp

def interrupt(signum, frame):
    raise Exception("")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

回答7:

Following code worked for me.

I used two threads one to get the raw_Input and another to wait for a specific time. If any of the thread exits, both the thread is terminated and returned.

def _input(msg, q):
    ra = raw_input(msg)
    if ra:
        q.put(ra)
    else:
        q.put("None")
    return

def _slp(tm, q):
    time.sleep(tm)
    q.put("Timeout")
    return

def wait_for_input(msg="Press Enter to continue", time=10):
    q = Queue.Queue()
    th = threading.Thread(target=_input, args=(msg, q,))
    tt = threading.Thread(target=_slp, args=(time, q,))

    th.start()
    tt.start()
    ret = None
    while True:
        ret = q.get()
        if ret:
            th._Thread__stop()
            tt._Thread__stop()
            return ret
    return ret

print time.ctime()    
t= wait_for_input()
print "\nResponse :",t 
print time.ctime()

回答8:

Analogous to Locane's for windows:

import subprocess  
subprocess.call('timeout /T 30')

回答9:

Here is a portable and simple Python 3 solution using threads. This is the only one that worked for me while being cross-platform.

回答10:

my cross platform solution

def input_process(stdin_fd, sq, str):
    sys.stdin = os.fdopen(stdin_fd)
    try:
        inp = input (str)
        sq.put (True)
    except:
        sq.put (False)

def input_in_time (str, max_time_sec):
    sq = multiprocessing.Queue()
    p = multiprocessing.Process(target=input_process, args=( sys.stdin.fileno(), sq, str))
    p.start()
    t = time.time()
    inp = False
    while True:
        if not sq.empty():
            inp = sq.get()
            break
        if time.time() - t > max_time_sec:
            break
    p.terminate()
    sys.stdin = os.fdopen( sys.stdin.fileno() )
    return inp

回答11:

Modified iperov answer that works for me (python3 win10 2019-12-09)

changes to iperov:

replace str with sstr as str is a function in python
add imports
add sleep to lower cpu usage of the while loop (?)

add if name=='main': #required by multiprocessing on windows

import sys, os, multiprocessing, time

def input_process(stdin_fd, sq, sstr):
    sys.stdin = os.fdopen(stdin_fd)
    try:
        inp = input(sstr)
        sq.put(True)
    except:
        sq.put(False)

def input_in_time(sstr, max_time_sec):
    sq = multiprocessing.Queue()
    p = multiprocessing.Process(target=input_process, args=( sys.stdin.fileno(), sq, sstr))
    p.start()
    t = time.time()
    inp = False
    while True:

        if not sq.empty():
            inp = sq.get()
            break
        if time.time() - t > max_time_sec:
            break

        tleft=int( (t+max_time_sec)-time.time())
        if tleft<max_time_sec-1 and tleft>0:
            print('\n  ...time left '+str(tleft)+'s\ncommand:')

        time.sleep(2)

    p.terminate()
    sys.stdin = os.fdopen( sys.stdin.fileno() )
    return inp

if __name__=='__main__':
    input_in_time("command:", 17)

回答12:

A late answer :)

I would do something like this:

from time import sleep

print('Please provide input in 20 seconds! (Hit Ctrl-C to start)')
try:
    for i in range(0,20):
        sleep(1) # could use a backward counter to be preeety :)
    print('No input is given.')
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    raw_input('Input x:')
    print('You, you! You know something.')

I know this is not the same but many real life problem could be solved this way. (I usually need timeout for user input when I want something to continue running if the user not there at the moment.)

Hope this at least partially helps. (If anyone reads it anyway :) )

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58042297/how-to-stop-waiting-for-the-user-to-enter-the-data-after-n-seconds

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