ecu_jon wrote: > import time,os,string,getpass,md5,ConfigParser > from time import strftime,localtime
You are importing the time module first, then import some symbols from the time module. This seems redundant to me. Note that after the "import time", the name "time" refers to the module you imported... > time = config.get("myvars", "time") ...but after this line it refers to something else, because you rebound it to the object returned by "config.get(...)". > #print "date is ",date , " time is ",time > a=1 > while a>0: Note: PEP8 actually say you shall use spaces around operators here. > #import time You're on the right track... > time.sleep(2) ...because this time here doesn't refer to the time module but to the output of "config.get(...)"! This object is a string object (type "str"), and Python complains: > AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'sleep' I Hope that clarifies something! ;) Uli -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list