Pausing python programs

[Graham]

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
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[max khesin]

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
(e-mail address removed)

Sleep() (at least on windoze) will suspend your app from execution. From
some experiments I think Python's time.sleep() uses it.
max

 

[Martin Franklin]

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

(e-mail address removed)


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

 

[Graham]

Thanks Max. Big help.
regards