[Tutor] how to get the return value?

[Anna Ravenscroft]

On 3/4/06, Ingo <seedseven at home.nl> wrote:
>
> To make a time lapse video I've been playing with the sched module.
> There is one problem I run into, in the code below, how do I get the
> returned value t from printtime into main?
>
>
> import time
> from sched import scheduler
>
> class time_lapse(scheduler):
>
>     def time_lapse(self, start_time, stop_time, interval, priority,
> action, argument):
>         def lapse():
>             action(*argument)
>             i=self.enter(interval, priority, lapse, ())
>             if stop_time:
>                 if stop_time<self.timefunc():
>                     self.cancel(i)
>         self.enterabs(start_time, priority, lapse, ())
>
> def printtime(strf=None):
>     t=time.time()
>     if strf:
>         print time.strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
>     else:
>         print time.localtime()
>     return t
>
> def main():
>     schedule = time_lapse(time.time, time.sleep)
>     start=time.time()
>     stop=list(time.localtime(start))
>     stop[3]=stop[3]+2
>     stop=time.mktime(stop)
>
>     #schedule.time_lapse(None,None,5,1,printtime,()) #start now, run
> forever
>     schedule.time_lapse(start,stop,7,0,printtime,(1,))
>
>     schedule.run()
>
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     main()
>
>
> Ingo
>
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main(printtime(strf=None))

should do it. Alternately:

tt = printtime(strf=None)
main(tt)

Anna
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