I want to be able to use the time module to do some snippets of code, but I'm a bit confused. Granted this is the first time I use it so I don't know exactly how to. Here's my goal however:
import time
(every 10 minutes)
# do something
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are you on *nix? If you are cron can be used to easily do this – dm03514 Jul 26 '13 at 13:42
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Would this solve your problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/373335/suggestions-for-a-cron-like-scheduler-in-python – Justin Ethier Jul 26 '13 at 13:43
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dm03514 I don't know what *nix is. Justin Ethier, that post both scares and confuses me. – faskiat Jul 26 '13 at 13:47
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By *nix he means some variant of Linux or Unix. It's using the asterisk as a wildcard marker. – thegrinner Jul 26 '13 at 13:53
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Oh my fault. Yes I'm using linux (ubuntu). I also have mac os at home and would want to implement it there too. I'm reading through the wiki on cron right now – faskiat Jul 26 '13 at 13:55
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import time
tenminutes = 600
while true:
time.sleep(tenminutes)
print "This is a reminder"
This would print something to the console every 10 minutes
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I see. So if I wanted to, say, print something to the terminal every ten minutes, could I do while true: time.sleep(tenminutes) print "This is a reminder!" – faskiat Jul 26 '13 at 13:49
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1@NormanB yep, I just updated how it would look if you wanted to do that – Tall Paul Jul 26 '13 at 13:51
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