timing issue: shutil.rmtree and os.makedirs
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Tue Jul 30 10:07:22 EDT 2013
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:27:10 +0100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> for delay in 100,300,600,1000,3000,5000,10000:
> if not os.path.exists(directory): break
> sleep(delay)
>
> That'll sleep a maximum of 20 seconds, tune as required.
Actually, that will sleep a maximum of 5.55 hours, and a minimum of 1.7
minutes (assuming the directory doesn't get deleted instantaneously).
time.sleep() takes an argument in seconds.
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Steven
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