python quit command?

[Stevoicus]

i know you can tell a program to "quit()" in python with that command in say an if statement or whatever but i want a command that says something like "quit after 10 seconds" to the program?

Anyone help me?

[martward]

Well I belief there is a quit() command, otherwise you could use sys.exit(). The last one (not sure about the first) will stop the current thread(), keep that in mind if you are writing multithreaded code. It's not a very nice solution though. I rather work with flags, so I have a flag which is True until it encounters the reason I want it to stop, then I set it to False and in the if statement I say if check == True.

[Stevoicus]

i know you can tell a program to "quit()" in python with that command in say an if statement or whatever but i want a command that says something like "quit after 10 seconds" to the program?

Anyone help me?

yes i know there is the quit() command like is said... i need one that ends the program after a specified amount of time

[martward]

Oooh sorry, didn't understand it correctly. You can use the time function.

 

import time

time1 = time.time()

time2 = time.time()

while time2-time1 < 10:

    Do whatever needs to be done

    time2 = time.time()

[Stevoicus]

right i'll give it a go, thanks for the help

[Neil]

Or if you don't need to do things during the time:

 

import sysimport time time.sleep(10)sys.exit()

 

Will exit after ten seconds.

[Crabtr]

Depending on what you're doing you can use exit() or sys.exit(), the latter likely being the one you want to use.