do "some action" once a minute

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Petr Jakes wrote:

> Thanks for your comment. It is mainly English issue (I am not native
> English speaker).
> 
> OK, to be more specific, I would like to run the code, when the value
> of seconds in the timestamp become say "00".
> The whole code will run in the infinitive loop and other actions will
> be executed as well, so it can not "sleep" for 60 seconds :).

The you have to go for a thread, as otherwise you'd have to create all sorts
of checks in your program to check for the current date. That therad then
could wait like this:


import time
def seconds():
    return time.localtime()[5]


def wait_for_seconds(secs=0):
    while seconds() != secs:
        time.sleep(.5)

def foo(): 
    # initial wait
    wait_for_seconds()
    do_something()
    while True:
       time.sleep(50)
       wait_for_seconds
       do_something()


Diez