Re: [Tutor] whats the best command to end a program

2005-12-06 Thread Alan Gauld 
 what would be the best command to end a program with.

If its Tkinter (or another GuI) there will be a quit command 
somewhere. Call that to ensure that the GUI framework gets 
tidied up properly.

For normal programs

import sys; sys.exit()

You can pass an exit code to the outdside world as 
a parameter to exit too.

or just

raise SystemExit

will work.

 i have an app that i want to start every day at 6am from cron
 but i want it to shutdown at 4pm

OK, here you probably want system.exit(n) with a proper error 
code so that cron can tell if it worked or not...

BTW strftime('%H') returns the hour in 24 hour format so you 
will want to check for 16 not 4...

Alan G
Author of the learn to program web tutor
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld


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Re: [Tutor] whats the best command to end a program

2005-12-06 Thread nephish 
right, greater  16 was what i ment.

he he

it is not a gui.
is raise SystemExit built in ?

thanks gents

sk

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 21:49 +, Alan Gauld wrote:
  what would be the best command to end a program with.
 
 If its Tkinter (or another GuI) there will be a quit command 
 somewhere. Call that to ensure that the GUI framework gets 
 tidied up properly.
 
 For normal programs
 
 import sys; sys.exit()
 
 You can pass an exit code to the outdside world as 
 a parameter to exit too.
 
 or just
 
 raise SystemExit
 
 will work.
 
  i have an app that i want to start every day at 6am from cron
  but i want it to shutdown at 4pm
 
 OK, here you probably want system.exit(n) with a proper error 
 code so that cron can tell if it worked or not...
 
 BTW strftime('%H') returns the hour in 24 hour format so you 
 will want to check for 16 not 4...
 
 Alan G
 Author of the learn to program web tutor
 http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
 
 

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Re: [Tutor] whats the best command to end a program

2005-12-06 Thread Joseph Quigley 
 if int(time.strftime(%H))  4:some end the program command
else:continuewhat would be best used here ?
I would use raise SystemExit

But another possibility is:
import sys then to exit sys.exit()-- There are 10 different types of people in the world.Those who understand binary and those who don't.
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