On 16/09/2015 18:14, richard kappler wrote:
Nevermind, figured it out. it needed to be delay = 0 and delay = 0.5, not ==

regards, Richard the virus ridden

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:03 PM, richard kappler <[email protected]>
wrote:

Missing something obvious here, but down with the flu so I'm foggy and
just can't see it. I need to set a variable 'delay' to be used in
time.sleep(delay) later on in a script, based on user input. Something odd
is going on in setting the variable though.  Here's the snippet where I'm
trying to set the variable:

#!/usr/bin/env python

delay = 7

print("1 - Batch")
print("2 - 2 per second")
print("3 - Real Time")
choice = raw_input("Enter feed speed choice (then press enter): ")
choice = int(choice)

if choice == 1:
     print "running as batch"
     delay == 0

elif choice == 2:
     print "feeding 2 events per second"
     delay == 0.5

elif choice == 3:
     print "feeding real time"
     delay = 'real time'

else:
     print "choice not available"
     os._exit(0)

print 'delay = ' + str(delay)


If I enter 1 or 2, I get delay = 7, if I enter 3, I get delay = real time.

HUH???

regards, Richard

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I suggest that you learn a little about debugging problems like this, such as putting print statements into your code or actually stepping through your code in a debugger.

Would you also be kind enough not to top post here, it can make things very difficult to read in long threads, thanks.

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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