Hi Frank,
> how can I break a loop after a certain amount of time has passed?
>
If the loop actually does something, I've used time.time() in the past:
start_time = time.time()
timeout = 60 #seconds
while True:
do_something()
if time.time() - start_time >= timeout:
break
time.time() just keeps increasing as it reports the system's clock (in
UNIX epoch time, just increasing seconds)
Hope that helps,
Hugo
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