On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, ecu_jon wrote:
I'm working on a script that will run all the time. at time specified in a config file, will kick-off a backup. problem is, its not actually starting the job. the double while loop runs, the first comparing date works. the second for hour/min does not.#python file import os,string,,time,getpass,ConfigParser from datetime import * from os.path import join, getsize from time import strftime,localtime config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() config.read("config.ini") source = config.get("myvars", "source") destination = config.get("myvars", "destination") date = config.get("myvars", "date") time = config.get("myvars", "time") str_time=strftime("%H:%M",localtime()) while datetime.now().weekday() == int(date): while str_time == time: print "do it"
You're comparing two objects in that inner while-loop, but since they never change, they'll never match unless they happen to start out as matched.
you need to re-evaluate str_time each time through the loop. Make a copy of that statement and put it inside the loop.
You probably don't want those loops to be comparing to ==, though, since if you start this script on some other day, it'll never loop at all. Also, it'd be good to do some form of sleep() function when you're waiting, so you don't bog the system down with a busy-loop.
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