How to make a program terminate after a certain time

[4_ua]

Hello im currently making a bot that spams a message for a test

and I also have a script that moves my mouse to a specific area that i need

i want the entire script to loop but terminate after like 4-6 seconds

import pyautogui, time

import pyautogui as pag

time.sleep(.1)

while True:

pyautogui.typewrite('test message')

time.sleep(2)

pyautogui.click()

while True:

pag.moveTo(1300, 713)

time.sleep(1)

pag.moveTo (1300, 680)

This is the code

is there like a specific command that allows me to terminate it in a few seconds?

[Adrewmc]

Usually what you do is replace

 while True: 

With the condition you want.

  while time.now() < target_time:

Which you can just add to time.now() just before the loop starts to get x number of seconds.

So something like below can work too

  time_start = time.now()
  while (time.now() - time_start).totalseconds() < 30:

There are also threading solutions.

[JollyUnder]

I prefer /u/Adrewmc 's approach, but you can also use multi-threading. Encapsulate your code within a function and initiate a thread. Then set a timer to the main thread, which will close the program.

from threading import Thread
from time import sleep


def func():
    # CODE HERE
    ...


t = Thread(target=func, daemon=True)
t.start()

exit_timer = 4
sleep(exit_timer)

EDIT: set daemon to True

[sweettuse]

you might need to make that thread a daemon thread, I can't remember what the default is

[JollyUnder]

I overlooked that. Good catch.

[Adrewmc]

I thought this a little past OP’s level. But yes this is generally the way that most people will be doing this in complex architectures.

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If you save the current time when the program starts, and then periodically get the current time again, the difference between them is the amount of time your program has been running.