do action while raw_input is empty
<p>I'd like to do some actions while waiting for a user input:
I was thinking of:</p>

<pre><code>var = raw_input("what are you thinking about")
while var == None:
   dosomethingwhilewaiting()
print "input is:", var
</code></pre>

<p>but raw_input is blocking until a user input come in.
Any ideas?</p>

<p>you can use threads. </p>

<pre><code>import thread
import time

var = None
def get_input():
    global var
    var = raw_input("what are you thinking about")

thread.start_new_thread(get_input, ())

i = 0
while var == None:
    i += 0.1
    time.sleep(0.1)
print "input is:", var
print "it took you %d seconds to answer" % i
</code></pre>

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