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  • Graham
    #1

    Pausing python programs

    How can I cause a python program to pause/suspend execution for a period of
    time? I am checking status of an external system and only want to check
    every second as opposed to my current which checks may times a secnod and
    hogs my cpu in the process!!!

    Thank you to anyone who can help.

    Graham Smith

    PeopleSoft Technical Team Leader
    OXFAM GB
    +44 (1865) 313255
    gsmith@oxfam.or g.uk



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    • max khesin
      #2
      Re: Pausing python programs

      Graham wrote:
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      > How can I cause a python program to pause/suspend execution for a period of
      > time? I am checking status of an external system and only want to check
      > every second as opposed to my current which checks may times a secnod and
      > hogs my cpu in the process!!!
      >
      > Thank you to anyone who can help.
      >
      > Graham Smith
      >
      > PeopleSoft Technical Team Leader
      > OXFAM GB
      > +44 (1865) 313255
      > gsmith@oxfam.or g.uk
      >
      >
      >[/color]
      Sleep() (at least on windoze) will suspend your app from execution. From
      some experiments I think Python's time.sleep() uses it.
      max

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        • Graham
          #3
          Re: Pausing python programs

          Thanks Max. Big help.
          regards


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            • Martin Franklin
              #4
              Re: Pausing python programs

              On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 09:41, Graham wrote:[color=blue]
              > How can I cause a python program to pause/suspend execution for a period of
              > time? I am checking status of an external system and only want to check
              > every second as opposed to my current which checks may times a secnod and
              > hogs my cpu in the process!!!
              >
              > Thank you to anyone who can help.
              >
              > Graham Smith
              >
              > PeopleSoft Technical Team Leader
              > OXFAM GB
              > +44 (1865) 313255[/color]
              gsmith@oxfam.or g.uk


              You should really get into pydoc:-) For example

              pydoc time

              Help on module time:

              NAME
              time - This module provides various functions to manipulate time
              values.

              FILE
              /usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/time.so


              <snip>


              Functions:

              time() -- return current time in seconds since the Epoch as a float
              clock() -- return CPU time since process start as a float
              sleep() -- delay for a number of seconds given as a float
              gmtime() -- convert seconds since Epoch to UTC tuple
              localtime() -- convert seconds since Epoch to local time tuple
              asctime() -- convert time tuple to string
              ctime() -- convert time in seconds to string
              mktime() -- convert local time tuple to seconds since Epoch
              strftime() -- convert time tuple to string according to format
              specification strptime() -- parse string to time tuple according to
              format specification
              tzset() -- change the local timezone



              so time.sleep(1) could be what you are after.

              Also don't forget google is you friend :-)

              Cheers
              Martin


              --
              Martin Franklin <mfranklin1@gat wick.westerngec o.slb.com>


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