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Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 23:00:22 +0200
Subject: Re: Run once while loop
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On 03 Apr 2012, at 22:45, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Anatoli Hristov <tolidtm@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to do a while loop with condition of time if time is
>> 12:00:00 print text, but for this one second the text is printed at
>> least 50 times, how can I print only once?
>
> Set a flag when you print the text to indicate that you've already
> printed it, and don't print it again if the flag is set.  When it's no
> longer 12:00:00, reset the flag.
>
> That said, a busy while loop is probably the wrong way to do this,
> because it will run your CPU at 100%.  Better would be to put the
> thread to sleep with time.sleep() calls or a real event loop with a
> timer event.
>
> Cheers,
> Ian

Thank you Ian,

what if I wait for other conditions if I use time.sleep for 1 sec? it
means that all the program is sleeping for a sec.


Regards


Hristov Anatoli