make python raw_input() or input() not waiting

Question

Possible Duplicate: raw_input and timeout `raw_input()` will wait for user input. How to make it go after waiting a few seconds?

Accepted Answer

One potential option:

```
import select, sys
r, w, x = select.select([sys.stdin], [], [], 3)
```

This will block for ~3 seconds - any data present will be in `r` after.

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