[Tutor] Time help

[Lloyd Kvam]

Your loop requires that you catch an EXACT match to your desired time. 
On a system that does not round to the second, this is quite unlikely to
happen.  You could round current, but I'd recommend changing the while
test to be:
	while now > current

The loop will exit when current reaches or exceeds now.



On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 11:42, MBussell at aol.com wrote:
> I am playing with the Time Module, and was attempt to write a script
> which would tell me when a specific time was reached.
>  
> I am using the integer number of seconds since the epoch.  This is
> what I have:
>  
> def test():
>     now = 1086017720.0
>     current = time.time()
>     print current
>     while now<>current:
>         current = time.time()
>         print current
>     print "now is acheived!"
>  
> The problem is the count continues past the specific time.
>  
> Thanks,
> MB
> 
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