two silly questions

[Larry Bates]

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.

HTH,
Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.

"bill ramsay" <bill.ramsay at clear.net.nz> wrote in message
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> 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.
>