On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:49:13 -0400, rbt wrote: > I have a win32 service written in Python. It works well. It sends a > report of the status of the machine via email periodically. The one > problem I have is this... while trying to send an email, the script > loops until a send happens and then it breaks. Should it be unable to > send, it sleeps for 10 minutes with time.sleep(600) and then wakes and > tries again. This is when the problem occurs. I can't stop the service > while the program is sleeping. When I try, it just hangs until a reboot. > Can some suggest how to fix this? >
You could try doing it the hard way. In a loop, sleep for 1-5 seconds at a time. Everytime you complete a sleep, check the elapsed time. If the elapsed time is >= the total sleep duration, fall out of the sleep loop and try your email again. This should allow your service to stop within 1-5 seconds of your request while imposing little to no load on the system. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
