On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:27:10 +0100, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> for delay in 100,300,600,1000,3000,5000,10000: >> if not os.path.exists(directory): break >> sleep(delay) >> >> That'll sleep a maximum of 20 seconds, tune as required. > > Actually, that will sleep a maximum of 5.55 hours, and a minimum of 1.7 > minutes (assuming the directory doesn't get deleted instantaneously). > > time.sleep() takes an argument in seconds.
LOL! Whoops. That's what I get for not checking my docs. This is why we have public responses, my errors can be caught by someone else. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
