Timed events

Gerhard Häring gerhard.haering at gmx.de
Sat Feb 1 08:12:12 EST 2003


Laura Creighton wrote:
>> Hi !
>> 
>> i have a problem with 'time.sleep( )' on a NT-server.  Considere this code :
>> 
>>     for i in range(0,999999):
> 
> Try this instead:
> 
>       for i in xrange(0, 999999):  # xrange(999999) will work here

Or even:

    while 1:    # or while True: if you target only Python 2.2.2+

if you want a never-ending loop. I doubt you really want one, though
;-)

Gerhard
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