python script to restrict keyboard input to a specified length of characters

hi..
i am trying to write a script, which accepts user input from keyboard. similar to this.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8...rs-and-lengths

however, my idea is to stop the cursor in the output terminal, after it reaches a specified length (say 16 characters).

how do i do this? please help!

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Not sure if you can to be honest... but probably the best thing is to handle the input afterwards:

You can define an exception to do this, or just trim/delete the content as you see fit...

Code:

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#!/usr/bin/env python

class LengthError(Exception):
  def __init__(self, value):
    self.value = value

user_input = raw_input("Enter 5 characters of text: ")

if len(user_input) > 5:
  raise LengthError("Input stream too long")
 
print user_input

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gives:

Code:

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gp@mariachi:~$ ./error.py
Enter 5 characters of text: 12345
12345
gp@mariachi:~$
gp@mariachi:~$
gp@mariachi:~$ ./error.py
Enter 5 characters of text: 123456
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./error.py", line 11, in <module>
    raise LengthError("Input stream too long")
__main__.LengthError
gp@mariachi:~$
gp@mariachi:~$

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