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 +0000, 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 > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor