Disabling input() before prompt?

Question

Hi all,

I’m writing a text adventure using Python. Very often I use input() to accept input from the player to allow them to do anything in the game.

Before the input() prompt, though, while a time.sleep() is running, the user is able to type and affect the text, and what they type is later accepted as the input. I need to disable this, to make the game smoother.
Any help?

Example:

Print(“Do you want to go inside?”)
Time.sleep(1)
ans = input()
if ans == “yes”:

Etc

If the user presses the enter key twice while the time.sleep() is occurring, the input will take those two blank enter keys as the input.

I don’t want the user to be able to type anything until the input() is being run.

Answer 1

Flush the input buffer before accepting input. I don't know how to do it in python. In C we can do this. I guess there will be something in python too.
This link may give you some ideas.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2520893/how-to-flush-the-input-stream-in-python

Answer 2

Hari Shankar thank you!! i will try this.

Answer 3

I’m still having troubles with this. I cant seem to make it work. I use Windows 10. I think a simpler way to phrase this question is this:
how do I make python ignore the enter key until input() actually appears?

Answer 4

Can you post your code here?