2009/2/19 pa yo <payo2...@gmail.com>:
> I am running my Twitter>>Wiki bots in infinite loops but can't find
> an easy way to turn them off gracefully once I have started them. At
> the moment I have to go into the terminal window where they are
> running and type "Ctrl-C". (I am running Ubuntu 8.10 and python 2.5.2)
>
> I was thinking that I could get the bot script to read a text file at
> the start of the main loop and have a separate script writing the
> "exit" order to the same text file.... but before I get too involved
> with this I wanted to know if there was an built-in function to
> switch scripts on and off.
You could go multithreaded. Something like this:
In your main thread, replace
while True:
with
while not self.done:
and then have another thread that does something like:
while True:
response = raw_input('Type "quit" to quit:')
if response.lower() == 'quit':
self.done = True
break
Or even more simply:
raw_input("Hit return to quit.")
self.done = True
It would also be easy to replace this with, say, Tkinter code to put a
"Quit" button in a window on your desktop.
--
John.
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