[Tutor] whats the best command to end a program

[w chun]

>         what would be the best command to end a program with.
>         i have an app that i want to start every day at 6am from cron
>         but i want it to shutdown at 4pm
>
>         i was going to check by time on every loop
>
>         if int(time.strftime(%H)) > 4:
>                 some end the program command
>         else:
>                 continue
>
> what would be best used here ?


i think using int(), strftime(), takes too much computation.  what's
wrong with just

if time.localtime()[3] >= 16:
    # do cleanup
    # raise SystemExit or import sys;sys.exit()

you don't even need the continue.

hope this helps!
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