Question

I have a program (temptrack) where I need to download weather data every x minutes for x amount of hours. I have figured out how to download every x minutes using time.sleep(x*60), but I have no clue how to repeat this process for a certain amount of hours.

UPDATE:
Thank you to everyone who posted a solution.
I marked the example using “datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(hours=x)” as the best answer because I could understand it the best and it seems like it will work very well for my purpose.

Answer 1

Compute the time you want to stop doing whatever it is you’re doing, and check each time that the time limit hasn’t expired. Like this:

finish_time = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(hours=6)
while datetime.datetime.now() < finish_time:
    do_something()
    sleep_for_a_bit()