Question

I want my app to loop in python but have a way to quit. Is there a way to get input from the console, scan it for letter q and quick when my app is ready to quit? in C i would just create a pthread that waits for cin, scans, locks a global quit var, change, unlock and exit the thread allowing my app to quit when its done dumping a file or w/e it is doing. DO i do this the same way in python and will it be cross platform? (i see a global single instance in python that was windows specific)

Answer 1

use the threading module to make a thread class.

import threading;  class foo(threading.Thread):     def __init__(self):         #initialize anything     def run(self):         while True:             str = raw_input('input something');  class bar:     def __init__(self)         self.thread = foo(); #initialize the thread (foo) class and store         self.thread.start(); #this command will start the loop in the new thread (the run method)         if(quit):             #quit