> what would be the best command to end a program with.
> i have an app that i want to start every day at 6am from cron
> but i want it to shutdown at 4pm
>
> i was going to check by time on every loop
>
> if int(time.strftime(%H)) > 4:
> some end the program command
> else:
> continue
>
> what would be best used here ?
i think using int(), strftime(), takes too much computation. what's
wrong with just
if time.localtime()[3] >= 16:
# do cleanup
# raise SystemExit or import sys;sys.exit()
you don't even need the continue.
hope this helps!
-- wesley
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