[Tutor] timeout

[Alan Gauld]

> how can I break a loop after a certain amount of time has passed?

> with timeout of 60sec:

I assume you want the loop to do somerthing until the timeout?
If so then the logic is:

timeout = now() + 60
while now() < timeout:
    do something.

Using the time module you can easily calculate timeout and now.

It gets trickier with small values - if you wanted 60ms say, but at 
the seconds level it works ok.

HTH,

Alan G
Author of the learn to program web tutor
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