On 03 Apr 2012, at 22:45, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Anatoli Hristov <toli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to do a while loop with condition of time if time is >> 12:00:00 print text, but for this one second the text is printed at >> least 50 times, how can I print only once? > > Set a flag when you print the text to indicate that you've already > printed it, and don't print it again if the flag is set. When it's no > longer 12:00:00, reset the flag. > > That said, a busy while loop is probably the wrong way to do this, > because it will run your CPU at 100%. Better would be to put the > thread to sleep with time.sleep() calls or a real event loop with a > timer event. > > Cheers, > Ian
Thank you Ian, what if I wait for other conditions if I use time.sleep for 1 sec? it means that all the program is sleeping for a sec. Regards Hristov Anatoli -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list