For Loop executed every 5 minutes for 24 hours

Question

I have a for loop and I want each iteration to be executed every 5 minutes. Essentially, I want to freeze/sleep the loop for 5 minutes and then continue from where it left 5 minutes ago, NOT to start from the beginning. In total, I want to do this for an entire day (24hours).

Great! What have you tried so far? What issues are you running into? — esqew, Oct 28 '19 at 16:02
Possible duplicate of [How do I get my Python program to sleep for 50 milliseconds?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/377454/how-do-i-get-my-python-program-to-sleep-for-50-milliseconds) — JeffUK, Oct 28 '19 at 16:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 28 '19 at 16:10

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You could define a method that simply calls sleep for 5 minutes and then call that in your loop. Kind of like this

import time 

# main loop
for i in .....:
   # do your stuff
   wait5Mins()
   # continue doing stuff

def wait5Mins():
    time.sleep(300)

answered Oct 28 '19 at 16:10

CEWeinhauer

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Thank you very much for your response, I used the answer I received above first and it works. But thanks for your help anyway! – Vassilis Koutsopoulos Oct 29 '19 at 13:29

Elias Strehle · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-30T14:09:05.413

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Something like this? The loop runs for (a little more than) twenty-four hours and sleeps for five minutes after each iteration.

from time import sleep, time

ONE_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60  # seconds
FIVE_MINUTES = 5 * 60  # seconds


start_time = time()

current_time = start_time
while current_time <= start_time + ONE_DAY - FIVE MINUTES:
    # Do something loopy here...

    time.sleep(FIVE_MINUTES)
    current_time = time()

edited Oct 30 '19 at 14:09

answered Oct 28 '19 at 16:10

Elias Strehle

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Thank you very much, I adjusted it to my code and it worked! – Vassilis Koutsopoulos Oct 29 '19 at 13:28

For Loop executed every 5 minutes for 24 hours

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