How to run a code after every 5 minutes from a specific time from 9:15 am to 3:30 pm?-CodePudding

I want to run a script at every 5 minutes but for the time when I run it, I want it to wait for divisible 5 minutes. For ex - current time is 11:32:15 am, so for the first time I would like it to run from 11:35 and then after every 5 minutes till 3:15 pm

CodePudding user response：

Use time.sleep run code after 5 min and datetime.datetime to get time

This is code:

from datetime import datetime
import time
while True:
    now = datetime.now()
    current_time = now.strftime("%H:%M:%S")
    if current_time=="11:35:15":
        # YOUR CODE HERE
        time.sleep(300)
    elif current_time=="3:15:06":
        break

If you want to run 1 times before break you can increase current_time

CodePudding user response：

You can use the schedule package, it is flexible for this kind of task.

import schedule
import time

def job():
    print("I'm working...")

schedule.every(5).minute.until("2030-01-01 03:15").do(job)

while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(1)

CodePudding user response：

you can schedule the script using "task scheduler" in windows or "crontab" in linux.