huh??? weird problem

[Dave Angel]

cerr wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I got following code:
> start=time.time()
> print 'warnTimeout '+str(WarnTimeout)
> print 'critTimeout '+str(CritTimeout)
> print 'start',str(start)
> while wait:
>     passed =  time.time()-start
>     print 'passed ',str(passed)
>     if passed >= WarnTimeout:
>       print ' Warning!'
>  ...
> ...
> ...
> which basically means that the loops should go until the warning time
> has been reached and then i want it to print 'warning!' and execute
> some warning code. But weirdly enough i get following screen output:
> warnTimeout 3
> critTimeout 5
> start 1273882010.43
> passed  7.60555267334e-05
> passed  0.998471975327
> passed  1.99847102165
> passed  2.9984691143
> passed  3.99847006798
> passed  4.998472929
> ...
> ...
> any one a clue why after 3 seconds it doesn't go into the the if an
> print 'Warning!'? That's odd... :o Crazy, what am i not seeing? :(
>
>   
we're not seeing all the relevant code.  While I can ignore the missing 
import, I don't see any creation of the variables WarnTimeout and 
CritTimeout.  Simplest explanation that fits your sample run is that 
they are not of type float.

DaveA