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[Michael Hudson]

Tetsuo <member at dbforums.com> writes:

> Can I make Python do something, say, every midnight?

It's probably best to use cron for that if you are a unix-a-like.

> Or stop a calculation after one second?

Maybe.  There's alarm() or setrlimit() or you might be able to use
threads... can you be more specific?

Cheers,
M.

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