so then why does this not work ? from datetime import datetime from os.path import join, getsize import time,os,string,getpass,md5,ConfigParser from time import strftime,localtime
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() config.read("config.ini") date = config.get("myvars", "date") time = config.get("myvars", "time") #print "date is ",date , " time is ",time a=1 while a>0: #import time time.sleep(2) if datetime.now().weekday() == int(date): str_time=strftime("%H:%M",localtime()) print "do it" Traceback (most recent call last): File "I:\college\spring11\capstone-project\time-test.py", line 25, in <module> time.sleep(2) AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'sleep' >>> if i uncomment the import time line in the while loop it works. boggle... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list