[Tutor] Timer

[Joseph Quigley]

Sorry, this is a little console project to tell me when there new headlines
on slashdot.org using their rss file. All it does is see if there's
something different and if there is it will tell you.

Here's my timer:
while True:
        if count > 1800:
            break
        time.sleep(1)
        count += 1

Or should I just do: time.sleep(1800)?


> A little context would be helpful. If you are writing a standalone app
> that just needs to wait 30 minutes, then do something, use time.sleep().
>
> If the program needs to be able to do something else at the same time as
> the timer is running, you will have to put the sleep() call in a
> separate thread. threading.Timer will do this for you, see this recipe
> for an example of its use:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440476
>
> If you are running in a GUI app, the GUI toolkit may have a timer you
> can use, for example in Tkinter widgets have an after() method that
> schedules a callback for a future time; wxPython has wx.FutureCall.
>
> http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/x9507-alarm-handlers-and-other.htm
> http://www.wxpython.org/docs/api/wx.FutureCall-class.html
>
> Kent
>
>
>
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