On Aug 2, 12:58 pm, Gary Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Beginner, so please bare with me. I'm not sure what to call what it > > is I'm looking for. > > > If I have an object class, let's call it "Creature": > > > class Creature: > > def __init__(self, status): > > self.status = "happy" > > > def change_status(self, new_status): > > self.status = new_status > > > def print_status(self): > > print self.status > > > I would like to be able to print out the Creature's status every 20 > > seconds. Let's say I use a script like this: > > > import time > > while True: > > time.sleep(20) > > Creature.print_status() > > > But, while cycling through printing the status, I would like to be > > able to update Creature.status to something new. > > To answer your question, we need to know from where you would derive the > directions to change the status. For instance: > * time based (random or periodically scheduled) > * user mouse/keyboard action > * some state external to the program (file content, socket data, phase > of the moon, price of tea in China, ...) > > Each of those possibilities would require a substantially different > approach. > > Gary Herron > > > I might be approaching this from the wrong direction entirely. Thanks > > for your input. > > -- > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > >
I was thinking about it taking directions from a GTK event handler, such as a user selecting a button. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
