win32 service and time.sleep()

[Steve Holden]

rbt wrote:
> I have a win32 service written in Python. It works well. It sends a
> report of the status of the machine via email periodically. The one
> problem I have is this... while trying to send an email, the script
> loops until a send happens and then it breaks. Should it be unable to
> send, it sleeps for 10 minutes with time.sleep(600) and then wakes and
> tries again. This is when the problem occurs. I can't stop the service
> while the program is sleeping. When I try, it just hangs until a reboot.
> Can some suggest how to fix this?

One way would be to maintain a Queue.Queue containing the messages that 
need to be sent and, rather than sleeping to retry just retrying when 
enough time has elapsed. That way you can keep pumping messages and so 
on to your heart's content, though you will have to keep track of the 
messages still to be sent.

regards
  Steve
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