How to time this loop

Question

Hello I just make this script loop, but now it loops indefinitely, I would like to make the loop every 5 seconds for example, I run the script and wait 5 seconds and run again. This is the code that i have right now.

import gdown

def test():
    url = 'https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1RUySVmR2ASrnNf3XV4sdIpKD4QbUlQL8A'
    output = 'spam.txt'
    gdown.download(url, output, quiet=False)

while True:
    test()

Does this answer your question? [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) — Georgy, Dec 24 '20 at 14:25
@Miguel the answer you have accepted is quite inefficient, consider accepting any one of the other answers. — Jarvis, Dec 25 '20 at 13:16

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 23 '20 at 16:01

I think the easiest way is to simply add a pause.

import gdown
from time import sleep

def test():
    url = 'https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1RUySVmR2ASrnNf3XV4sdIpKD4QbUlQL8A'
    output = 'spam.txt'
    gdown.download(url, output, quiet=False)

while True:
    test()
    sleep(5)

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 23 '20 at 16:01

3

Just sleep for 5 seconds then:

import time

while True:
    test()
    time.sleep(5)

answered Dec 23 '20 at 16:01

Jarvis

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oh jajajaja xD ok thanks – Miguel Dec 23 '20 at 16:12

score -1 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 23 '20 at 16:29

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import time

def test():
    print("running code")

start = time.time()

while 1:
    if time.time()-start >= 5:
        test()
        start = time.time()

The 5 is for the seconds. This way means that the rest of your program does not have to wait for five seconds, which maybe more useful.

edited Dec 23 '20 at 16:29

Tomerikoo

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answered Dec 23 '20 at 16:14

Mofie The greate

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Note that if you do this method you will use a bunch of cpu power just spinning through the loop doing nothing. The other solutions that use `time.sleep` keep the CPU usage to a minimum. – FailureGod Dec 23 '20 at 19:16
Only use this method if you want only that chunck of code to run every second and the rest of the program to carry on as normal – Mofie The greate Jan 29 '21 at 18:13

How to time this loop

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