Let function work for amount of time in Python

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hey guys
i'm wondering on how to let a function to work for a certin amount of time
i have been building a web crawler to gather links from a certin page and one of the functions i need it to work for amount of time then goes to sleep for another amount of time then work etc.....
any idea here

What I have tried:

i tried sleep function and it's only delaying the work

Posted 16-Aug-16 14:50pm

pyoder

Updated 16-Aug-16 22:04pm

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2016-08-16T22:04:00

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You just need to capture the time when your function starts, and then periodically check whether it has reached its time limit. you then sleep for the allotted rest time and then repeat the whole process. See 15.3. time — Time access and conversions — Python 2.7.12 documentation[^].

Posted 16-Aug-16 22:04pm

Richard MacCutchan

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pyoder 19-Aug-16 5:12am

can't run it again with this method

Richard MacCutchan 19-Aug-16 5:32am

Is that supposed to mean something?

pyoder 20-Aug-16 20:54pm

thanks any way ,, i found how to do it with threads