two silly questions

[bill ramsay]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:49:50 -0500, "Larry Bates"
<lbates at swamisoft.com> wrote:

>The absolute "best" way to do what you want is to write
>an NT service.  Mark Hammond's Python Programming on
>Win32 has excellent examples of this.  NT services
>run in the background and can be set to actually sleep
>for any amount of time (in microseconds).  I've written
>several of these and while the learning curve is a
>little steep on the front end, the resulting application
>is MUCH better.
>

thanks for this,  much appreciated,  funnily enough i had a sniff in
there today, and i think i found what you are reffering to.

kind regards

bill ramsay



>HTH,
>Larry Bates
>Syscon, Inc.
>
>"bill ramsay" <bill.ramsay at clear.net.nz> wrote in message
>news:upetb0dimckv16o1b1actl9tngej94enkf at 4ax.com...
>> Hello
>>
>> just found the wonderful world of python  in the last two weeks  and I
>> think that it is great.
>>
>> I have a couple of questions for those who are wiser a la python than
>> I am.
>>
>> Background:
>>
>> I have written a program that polls an email account, then pulls down
>> the email,  it then searches through the email,  and depending upon
>> type,  ie.  with or without attachments it does different things.  The
>> net result is that data is written to access tables for an external
>> application to extract the necessary data.
>>
>> I am using win2k.
>>
>> the two questions are:
>>
>> 1.  when i want the program to run in a loop,  ie. poll the pop3
>> account every 60 seconds,  it runs the first time, then it goes into
>> 'not responding mode' thereafter,  sometimes.    Any thoughts?  I was
>> using sleep(60) but it just hangs,  as i said before,  it does not
>> always do that either!
>>
>> 2.  I wish to use this program at work,  I took in an earlier version
>> yesterday that just wrote the data to a text file,  I wanted to make
>> sure the polling thing worked. on microsoft exchange [i know that it
>> should,  but you never know!!]  and it does .  When i was there, i
>> managed to get the code to run just by double clicking on the code
>> ICON,  seem to remember doing something with 'open with' can't seem to
>> do it here at home.
>>
>> Both systems run win2k.  did i do something sublimilally without
>> realising it?  what did i do i cannot remember,  i have tried opening
>> with etc.  when i do this all get is a burst of the 'black windows
>> box' just in the same way as putting in 'cmd' on the run thing,
>>
>> as you can see i am not up on all the terms.
>>
>> if anyone can help,  i would appreciate it.
>>
>> kind regards
>>
>> bill ramsay.
>>
>