How can I stop the 'input()' function after a certain amount of time?

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to make python stop accepting input after a certain amount of time.

What I\'ve got so far works, but won\'t stop the program until the user

Answer 1

just use time.sleep() The sleep method causes a python program to freeze for certain amount of time (in milliseconds). So, if you want to stop input() for a certain amount of time then you can do it this way,

from time import sleep
sleep(1000) #stops the program for 1 seconds
s = input()

sauce

Answer 2

You could use Multi-threading for this.

from threading import Thread
import time
import os

answer = None


def ask():
    global start_time, answer
    start_time = time.time()
    answer = input("Enter a number:\n")
    time.sleep(0.001)


def timing():
    time_limit = 5
    while True:
        time_taken = time.time() - start_time
        if answer is not None:
            print(f"You took {time_taken} seconds to enter a number.")
            os._exit(1)
        if time_taken > time_limit:
            print("Time's up !!! \n"
                  f"You took {time_taken} seconds.")
            os._exit(1)
        time.sleep(0.001)


t1 = Thread(target=ask)
t2 = Thread(target=timing)
t1.start()
t2.start()