Comments on: Python: How to Tell How Long Windows Has Been Idle http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/05/python-how-to-tell-how-long-windows-has-been-idle/ Python Programming from the Frontlines Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Diane http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/05/python-how-to-tell-how-long-windows-has-been-idle/comment-page-1/#comment-21292 Diane Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:16:00 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=836#comment-21292 Well,i should have to ask to the phyton group to make a program to interact with the idleness of the computer,it can tell us how long a Windows XP machine had been idle and to alert the user if it had been idle for a certain amount of timeThanks for sharing this to us. G-d bless ;-) Well,i should have to ask to the phyton group to make a program to interact with the idleness of the computer,it can tell us how long a Windows XP machine had been idle and to alert the user if it had been idle for a certain amount of timeThanks for sharing this to us. G-d bless ;-)

]]> By: Yipeng http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/05/python-how-to-tell-how-long-windows-has-been-idle/comment-page-1/#comment-20703 Yipeng Wed, 05 May 2010 22:31:45 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=836#comment-20703 Very interesting little script. Thanks. Very interesting little script. Thanks.

]]> By: driscollis http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/05/python-how-to-tell-how-long-windows-has-been-idle/comment-page-1/#comment-20704 driscollis Wed, 05 May 2010 22:21:35 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=836#comment-20704 Hi,<br><br>You are quite correct. I had originally tried doing a small range, but since this was a one-off script, I decided to just do it even simpler. If I receive complaints about it not making noise, then I'll do what you mentioned.<br><br>Thanks for your readership! Let me know if there are any topics you'd like to know more about in the Python world.<br><br>- Mike Hi,

You are quite correct. I had originally tried doing a small range, but since this was a one-off script, I decided to just do it even simpler. If I receive complaints about it not making noise, then I'll do what you mentioned.

Thanks for your readership! Let me know if there are any topics you'd like to know more about in the Python world.

- Mike

]]> By: Peter Hansen http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/05/python-how-to-tell-how-long-windows-has-been-idle/comment-page-1/#comment-20702 Peter Hansen Wed, 05 May 2010 22:02:36 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=836#comment-20702 Thanks for a nice little example using ctypes. Note that you might want to either shorten your delay slightly or, better, change the logic to look for a small range of times rather than just equality with one particular value. The time.sleep() call will sometimes take slightly longer than 1s (there's no guarantee), and if that happens to occur at just the wrong time, the equality test will never be hit and you'll miss playing the sound. (Obviously a non-critical thing, but it's not hard to avoid it either.) Thanks for a nice little example using ctypes. Note that you might want to either shorten your delay slightly or, better, change the logic to look for a small range of times rather than just equality with one particular value. The time.sleep() call will sometimes take slightly longer than 1s (there's no guarantee), and if that happens to occur at just the wrong time, the equality test will never be hit and you'll miss playing the sound. (Obviously a non-critical thing, but it's not hard to avoid it either.)

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