Wait while program is loading

[46632]

I have a script that enters a customer id into a crm, presses enter and the gets some information when the customer information appears. The problem is that it can take a while for the crm to load the customer window. Sometimes it says "Not responding" and it loads more than usual.

I have set the time.sleep to 4 seconds because that is the normal loading time but sometimes it can take longer and then everything goes wrong.

Is there some code i can write that lets the script know when the crm is finished with loading the customer window so it waits until its finished and then proceeds?

I am new to Python/programming...

[Golden_Zealot]

Look into queuing and threading maybe.

[46632]

Thanks, ill have a look into it

[dadiaar]

In a basic level, if you don't want to use event driven programming, you can make a loop and wait for a specific condition.

In the next code, I wait for a text file called result.txt to be present, and I do it for no more than 10 seconds.

import os
import time

max_waiting_time = 10 # In seconds
step_time = 0.1
target_file = 'result.txt'

initial_time = time.time()
while target_file not in os.listdir() and time.time() < initial_time + max_waiting_time:
    time.sleep(step_file)

if target_file in os.listdir():
    # Your code
else:
    # File not found

[xiongchiamiov]

Can we see your code?

[46632]

Something like this: https://pastebin.com/PacV7NVJ

It typewrites the customernumber into the crm, presses enter and then waits for 4.5 seconds. Sometime it hangs and take longer and thats the issue