Sorin Schwimmer wrote: > I am thinking on something in the following form: > > <code> > import time > import thread > > delay=True > > def fn() > global delay > time.sleep(<your_amount_of_time_in_seconds>) > delay=False > > thread.start_new_thread(fn,()) > > while delay: > <statement 1> > <statement 2> > ... > > while <other_condition>: > <statement 1> > <statement 2> > ... > </code> > > Or, if you need to use "break", the second loop may be > something like: > > <code> > while True: > <statement 1> > <statement 2> > ... > if <other_condition>: break > <other_statements> > ... > </code> > > The two while loops have the same content, but the > first is terminated after a pre-determined amount of > time, while the second by another condition. Usually > the content of the too loops, being the same, is a > call to a function that does the actual work. In your > case, as time seems to be critical, you don't want to > spend it in function-call overheads, so you repeat > (cut'n'paste) the relevant code. > > Of course, the price to be paid is in maintenance > headache: you'll have to make all the changes in both > loops, to keep consistency. > > I hope this helps. It doesn't.
Claudio -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
