delay a task until certain time

Question

What I want to do in a python script is sleep a number of seconds until the required time is reached. IE: if runAt setting is 15:20 and current time is 10:20, how can I wor

Answer 1

If you subtract one datetime object from another you get a timedelta object, which has a seconds property, so you can do:

t1 = datetime.datetime.now()

# other stuff here
t2 = datetime.datetime.now()
delta = t2 - t1
if delta.seconds > WAIT:
    # do stuff
else:
    # sleep for a bit

As an aside, you might want to use cron for tasks that are supposed to run at specific times.