Zaki Akhmad <[email protected]> Wrote in message:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:39 PM, James Scholes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Most decent Python libraries for accessing Twitter support the streaming
>> API. This lets you keep a connection to the Twitter API alive and
>> process new data as it is received. There is a simple (but out-of-date)
>> example on using streaming with the twitter package you linked to:
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter/1.13.1
>
> My question is: how to execute this streaming API?
>
> My current approach is using cron to execute python script which has
> "check the streaming API" function:
>
> def check_mention:
> if (mention):
> tweet
>
> If I want to check every minute, then I should configure cron to
> execute this script every minute. Are there any other approach besides
> using cron?
>
>
>
>
import time
while True:
do|something
time.sleep (60)
Note that sleep () doesn't hog the processor; very nearly 100% of
the processor is given to the other processes. Further, you
don't have the startup time you'd have with cron.
There are tradeoffs, but sleep is usually what you want.
--
DaveA
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