Can you cancel an input() function after it's been called?-CodePudding

I've made a game that runs in the command line. There is a timer thread and a game thread, once the timer runs out the game thread does end. However, if the user still hasn't made an input they are still able to. Is there a way to just cancel the input function? Here's the code (excuse the messiness):

The timer code

done = False
timeLeft = 180

# 3 minute timer to finish the game
def timer():
    global timeLeft
    while timeLeft > 0:
        sleep(1)
        timeLeft -= 1
        if done:
            break
    else:
        print('\n\nTimes up!')
        finishedGame()

The game loop within game()

while gameBoard.busts < 3 and len(shuffledDeck) > 0:

    topCard = shuffledDeck[0]
    print(topCard)

    # Asks where to place the top card and removes it from deck
    chosenColumn = int(input('\nWhich column would you like to add this card to?'))

    if chosenColumn == 1:
        gameBoard.col1.addCard(topCard)
        checkColumn(gameBoard.col1)

    if chosenColumn == 2:
        gameBoard.col2.addCard(topCard)
        checkColumn(gameBoard.col2)

    if chosenColumn == 3:
        gameBoard.col3.addCard(topCard)
        checkColumn(gameBoard.col3)

    if chosenColumn == 4:
        gameBoard.col4.addCard(topCard)
        checkColumn(gameBoard.col4)


    shuffledDeck.pop(0)

    if timeLeft == 0:
        break

    os.system('cls' if os.name == 'nt' else 'clear')
    gameBoard.output()

else:
    finishedGame()

Creation of the threads

if __name__ =='__main__':
    # Creates 2 threads to run alonside each other
    # Timer thread to run in background
    t1 = Thread(target=timer)
    # Game thread to run the actual game
    t2 = Thread(target=game)

    t1.start()
    t2.start()

CodePudding user response：

Guys don't just start downvoting his question he was quite clear on what he needed your just going to start turning people away from stack overflow. Dillan I found this. https://stackoverflow.com/a/62611967/14987438 and if you hate linkss then here's the code.

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()