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AlexTerm
AlexTerm

Reputation: 23

How do you print strings but whenever the user types a specific character it overlaps on whatever is happening and executes the other code in Python3?

Im trying to make something like:

import time
if Action == 1:
  while True:
    money += 5
    time.sleep(5)

and:

Action = input('>')
if Action = 2:
  print('You now have $' + str(money) + '!')

so that in the background variable money keeps going up 5 every 5 seconds and whenever the user types in '2' it shows how much the variable money has.

ex.

background:

money = 5

5 secs

money = 10

5 secs

money = 15

3 secs

user: 2

You now have $15!

2 secs

money = 20

Upvotes: 0

Views: 21

Answers (1)

dorintufar
dorintufar

Reputation: 650

Fast code (python 3.6):

import _thread
import time

scope = [dict(action=1, money=0)]
# Define a function for the thread
def money_handler ():
    while True:
        if scope[0]["action"] == 1:
            scope[0]["money"] += 5
        if scope[0]["action"] == 2:
            scope[0]["money"] += 10
        time.sleep(5)
        print(scope[0]["money"], scope[0]["action"])
def action_handler():
    while True:
        time.sleep(5)
        scope[0]["action"] = 2 if scope[0]["action"] == 1 else 1

# Create two threads as follows
_thread.start_new_thread(money_handler, ())
_thread.start_new_thread(action_handler, ())

Think about that as 2 separate program flows that interact only with scope variable

Upvotes: 1

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