At 08:40 AM 2/29/2008, Chris Fuller wrote: >On Friday 29 February 2008 06:28, Dick Moores wrote: > > I keep missing a certain weekly program on my local NPR station. My > > idea is to record it using software I have, Easy Hi-Q Recorder. I can > > set it to start recording when the program starts, 8pm, but I need to > > have the program playing on my computer. The URL for the station's > > audio is http://www.kuow.org/real.ram . > > > > I've got this so far: > > > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > #coding=utf-8 > > import time > > b = '20:00:00' > > while True: > > a = time.strftime('%H:%M:%S') > > time.sleep(0.5) > > if a == b: > > print "TIME!" > > break > > > > Obviously, I need to replace the 'print "TIME"' line with something > > that will open IE7 to http://www.kuow.org/real.ram . But what? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dick Moores > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > >You might consider passing the URL directly to the audio player. This is >usually all the web browser does for you, although its possible there's a >different URL defined on that page each time, but then you could parse the >page in python using urllib and re, or something similar. Not only that, >launching IE7 is a time and memory consuming activity, and definitely lacks >grace.
Yes. Point taken. >I dunno how your media player works, but this did the job for me (from the >command prompt): > >"c:\Program Files\Real Alternative\Media Player Classic\mplayerc.exe" >http://www.kuow.org/real.ram Great! "E:\Programs\Real Player\realplay.exe" http://www.kuow.org/real.ram works fine at the command prompt! >You could put this directly into your windows scheduler, and not use >python at >all. Start Menu>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Scheduled Tasks >You'll get an option to set the command line at the end of teh wizard, if you >check "show advanced options" > >You could have a python process running in the background that executed this >command through the subprocess module, at the appointed time. You could even >use something like FireDaemon to turn it into a service. But, it seems >better to use the windows scheduler. I'm having a lot of trouble with the windows scheduler. It wants a password, and there isn't one. In any event, I'd like to do this with Python, especially if I could have "a Python process running in the background." Would you mind giving me a start on the code for this? Thanks, Dick Moores _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
