I have been given a python script which allows me to mute the volume of my mac at a time I set so that any podcasts I'm listening to as I fall asleep won't wake me up once I am asleep. However, it will only act once the time given happens on that day, therefore if I try to activate it before midnight, it will mute the laptop immediately, which is not ideal because if I want to use it I have to wait for midnight to pass before I go to sleep. #!/usr/bin/env python3 import datetime as dt import osascript import sys from threading import Timer def do_the_biz(): osascript.osascript("set volume output volume 0") print("Night night") today = dt.datetime.now() dateString = today.strftime('%d-%m-%Y') + " " + sys.argv[1] newDate = today.strptime(dateString,'%d-%m-%Y %H:%M') delay = (newDate - dt.datetime.now()).total_seconds() Timer(delay,do_the_biz,()).start() So, a typical execution of this script looks like this: $./sleep.py 04:00 and the command line will return the following once it has reached 4am, and then close the program: Night Night What I would like is to be able to manipulate the date so that the script will operate at the next available time of, for example, 4am - so it would essentially operate almost in the exact same way an alarm would. For this I could run an entirely different script of sleep.tomorrow. However, in an ideal world, I would like to be able to: have the option to have another argument where I specify today or tomorrow and the program acts accordingly; be able to cancel the process without having to close the terminal. I am new to python and have been having a hard time understanding the differences between the various datetime functions and the documention hasn't helped, so a brief explanation and comparison between what they input and output and how they interact would be gratefully appreciated. Continue reading...
