^^ I meant time.sleep(x), rather. Please excuse the double post.
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
<zebr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> My two cents' worth added below. Seems to do what you want. You probably
> want to call sys.wait(x) after printing an error, so it can be read before
> exiting?
>
> import os, sys, time
>
>
> def check(host):
> try:
> output = os.popen('ping -ns 1 %s' % host).read()
> alive = output.find('Reply from')
> print alive
> if alive is -1:
> print '%s \t\t DOWN ' % host
> else:
> print '%s \t\t OK' % host
>
> except OSError, e:
> print e
> sys.exit()
>
> while alive != -1:
> try:
> time.sleep(4)
> check(host)
>
> except KeyboardInterrupt, k:
> sys.exit()
>
> def get_command():
> prompt = input('Start now? Use 1 to start or 0 to exit.\n')
> return prompt
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> cmd = get_command()
> if cmd == 1:
> check('localhost')
>
> elif cmd == 0:
> sys.exit()
>
> else:
> get_command()
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Nethirlon . <nethir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm new at programming with python and have a question about how I can
>> solve my problem the correct way. Please forgive my grammar, English
>> is not my primary language.
>>
>> I'm looking for a way to repeat my function every 30 seconds.
>>
>> As an example I have written a ping function. But I would like this
>> function to repeat itself every 30 seconds, without stopping until I
>> give it a STOP command (if such a thing exists.)
>>
>> Code:
>> import os, sys
>>
>> def check(host):
>> try:
>> output = os.popen('ping -ns 1 %s' % host).read()
>> alive = output.find('Reply from')
>> print alive
>> if alive is -1:
>> print '%s \t\t DOWN ' % host
>> else:
>> print '%s \t\t OK' % host
>> except OSError, e:
>> print e
>> sys.exit()
>>
>> check('www.google.com')
>>
>> Let me know if anything is unclear or if there are other
>> recommendations about doing some parts different.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Nethirlon
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>
>
>
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>
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