Re: Is there anything in the script which could cause it to not run its full course please?
On 04May2020 17:17, ozst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:35:42 UTC+10, David Raymond wrote: Not necessarily the cause of your problem, but if you're going to compare dates it should be as objects, or as text as year-month-day. Here you're comparing dates as text in day-month-year format. So January first comes before May 4th 2020 "01-01-" < "04-05-2020" [...] Thank you, see what you mean. I have corrected this now. It seem worth pointing out that this is why many of us like ISO8601 dates, which are written from largest component to smallest component. For example: 2020-05-04 They have the convenient property of sorting lexically as they would sort numerically. But David's right on in saying that if you're comparing numbers, do it numerically. Comparing text when the underlying thing isn't text is the wrong approach. Cheers, Cameron Simpson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Is there anything in the script which could cause it to not run its full course please?
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:35:42 UTC+10, David Raymond wrote:
> Not necessarily the cause of your problem, but if you're going to compare
> dates it should be as objects, or as text as year-month-day. Here you're
> comparing dates as text in day-month-year format. So January first comes
> before May 4th 2020
>
> "01-01-" < "04-05-2020"
>
> ...
> 04-05-2020 09:30:00 40
> 04-05-2020 12:30:00 40
> 04-05-2020 15:30:00 40
> 04-05-2020 22:30:00 40
> ...
> input_date,input_time,input_duration=date_time_duration.split(' ')
> current_datetime = datetime.datetime.now()
> current_date = current_datetime.strftime('%d-%m-%Y')
> if(input_date>=current_date):
>while(True):
> ...
Thank you, see what you mean. I have corrected this now.
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Re: Is there anything in the script which could cause it to not run its full course please?
Many thanks for your help. It is really appreciated. I see both your points and maybe this is where my problems lays. If for example it starts (and it does) at 9.30am then the print is.. streaming It is supposed to wait for the 40 minutes, stop then print this.. Waiting for the next stream to start at 12:30 however I get this same message maybe 4 minutes in, not 40. I have checked for admin 'events' in Win10 1909 however there is nothing there, and the start menu has only 3 items, none that would effect this. The box doesn't have anything else running, as it is virtually dedicated to this streaming. It has two displays, one for the stream program and the other for the dos box, so nothing is on the streamer screen where the mouse clicks. Once again many thanks and let me digest your info. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: Is there anything in the script which could cause it to not run its full course please?
Not necessarily the cause of your problem, but if you're going to compare dates
it should be as objects, or as text as year-month-day. Here you're comparing
dates as text in day-month-year format. So January first comes before May
4th 2020
"01-01-" < "04-05-2020"
...
04-05-2020 09:30:00 40
04-05-2020 12:30:00 40
04-05-2020 15:30:00 40
04-05-2020 22:30:00 40
...
input_date,input_time,input_duration=date_time_duration.split(' ')
current_datetime = datetime.datetime.now()
current_date = current_datetime.strftime('%d-%m-%Y')
if(input_date>=current_date):
while(True):
...
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