i see. i was using time as a variable name , messing it all up.im not going to post the whole backup script here, but here are a few lines that i changed to make it work.
from datetime import datetime from os.path import join, getsize import time,os,string,getpass,md5,ConfigParser from time import strftime,localtime hrmin = config.get("myvars", "hrmin") #was time =, this is what did it. while a>0: if datetime.now().weekday() == int(date): str_time=strftime("%H:%M",localtime()) if str_time == hrmin: print "do it" os.system(cmd) time.sleep(5)#will prolly want to change to to 30 or higher for release file. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list