storing variable value

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Daniel Dalton schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm writing a program to provide me with battery warnings when my
> battery hits certain levels. It just checks the current level and does
> something. I plan to call it from a a cron job. But If the cron runs
> every minute, warnings every minute would be rather annoying. so is
> there a way to make the script check if it has already ran before?
> eg. can I write to a variable on one run of the program, and on the next
> read that value that was written?

Use a file to store previous run's state. Use e.g. the pickle-module to 
store some arbitrary data-structures to the disk.


Diez