Continually check object status

[Gary Herron]

futileissue at gmail.com wrote:
> Beginner, so please bare with me.  I'm not sure what to call what it
> is I'm looking for.
>
> If I have an object class, let's call it "Creature":
>
> class Creature:
>     def __init__(self, status):
>         self.status = "happy"
>
>     def change_status(self, new_status):
>         self.status = new_status
>
>     def print_status(self):
>         print self.status
>
> I would like to be able to print out the Creature's status every 20
> seconds.  Let's say I use a script like this:
>
> import time
> while True:
>     time.sleep(20)
>     Creature.print_status()
>
> But, while cycling through printing the status, I would like to be
> able to update Creature.status to something new.
>   

To answer your question, we need to know from where you would derive the 
directions to change the status.  For instance:
  * time based (random or periodically scheduled)
  * user mouse/keyboard action
  * some state external to the program (file content, socket data, phase 
of the moon, price of tea in China, ...)

Each of those possibilities would require a substantially different 
approach.

Gary Herron



> I might be approaching this from the wrong direction entirely.  Thanks
> for your input.
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