I'm new to python, I can't tell if this will work or not [closed]

Answer 1

Well, conceptually your code is ok. Your biggest mistake is that Christmas is (typically) December 25. Nevertheless, here are a few things you can do to make your code a bit more concise:

import time
continueLooping = True
while continueLooping:
    time.sleep(60)
    dateChecker = time.strftime("%b, %d", time.localtime())
    if dateChecker == "Dec, 25":
        print "It's Christmas"
        raw_input("Enter anything to close\n")
        continueLooping = False

Changes:

• varthing -> continueLooping : You want your variable names to reflect their intended purpose.
• = 1; == 1; = 0 -> = True; ; = False : Booleans exist for a reason. They make your code more explicit and easier to read. Also, you have to write less code (== 1).
• checker -> dateChecker : Your variable names should be specific to their use case (just incase you need to check something else down the line)
• "Dec, 24" -> "Dec, 25" : Again, Christmas is often December 25.

Otherwise, it's ultimately fine. The raw_input bit doesn't seem to do much, but that's a UX thing.

Edit:

Seeing as how there's always a smaller way, I'm going to try this as succinctly as possible (without great loss to legibility).

import time
while time.strftime("%b, %d", time.localtime()) != "Dec, 25":
    time.sleep(60)
print "It's Christmas"

And now I think I'm going to put this up on CodeGolf.