My question is how to create a python globalList and, inside an infinite while True loop, to create an infinite countdown (for example of 5 seconds) during which it will create a subList that will store some data (here current time, as example) along the whole period of 5 seconds, after which append the subList to globalList and restart the countdown with a new_subList to store other data until the break of while True loop...
That is, something like:
globalList = [
[[1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]], # "subList_1" created and appended to "globalList" in the first 5 seconds
[[7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12]], # "subList_2" created and appended to "globalList" in the next 5 seconds
[[13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18]], # "subList_3" created and appended to "globalList" in the next 5 seconds
[[19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24]], # "subList_4" created and appended to "globalList" in the next 5 seconds
[[25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30]], # "subList_5" created and appended to "globalList" in the next 5 seconds
[[31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36]], # "subList_6" created and appended to "globalList" in the next 5 seconds
# ... and so on, until the end of a "while True" loop with that "countdown" loop with a duration of 5 seconds (for example) that restarts after the end of first 5 seconds...
]
Here what I have tried:
from time import time
globalList = []
while True:
t_end = time() + 5 # 5 seconds
counter = 1
globals()['subList_{}'.format(counter)] = []
while time() < t_end:
globals()['timeList_{}'.format(counter)] = []
globals()['timeList_{}'.format(counter)].append(time())
globals()['subList_{}'.format(counter)].append(globals()['timeList_{}'.format(counter)])
globalList.append(globals()['subList_{}'.format(counter)])
print(globalList)
t_end = time() + 5 # restart loop
counter += 1
But this code gives an output like:
[
[[1643349543.012217]]
]
[
[[1643349543.012217], [1643349543.0122268]],
[[1643349543.012217], [1643349543.0122268]]
]
[
[[1643349543.012217], [1643349543.0122268], [1643349543.012234]],
[[1643349543.012217], [1643349543.0122268], [1643349543.012234]],
[[1643349543.012217], [1643349543.0122268], [1643349543.012234]]
]
[
[[1643349543.012217], [1643349543.0122268], [1643349543.012234], [1643349543.0122433]],
[[1643349543.012217], [1643349543.0122268], [1643349543.012234], [1643349543.0122433]],
[[1643349543.012217], [1643349543.0122268], [1643349543.012234], [1643349543.0122433]],
[[1643349543.012217], [1643349543.0122268], [1643349543.012234], [1643349543.0122433]]
]
...
that is, as you can see, I obtain something like:
[
[[1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]],
[[1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]],
[[1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]],
[[1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]],
[[1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]],
[[1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]],
...
]
Solved
here the code:
import time
from datetime import datetime
subList_counter = 1
globals()['subList_{}'.format(subList_counter)] = []
globalList = []
timeList_counter = 1
startTime = time.time()
while True:
globals()['timeList_{}'.format(timeList_counter)] = [time.time()]
globals()['subList_{}'.format(subList_counter)].append(globals()['timeList_{}'.format(timeList_counter)])
if len(globals()['subList_{}'.format(subList_counter)]) == 10:
globalList.append(globals()['subList_{}'.format(subList_counter)])
# print("Updated subList_{} at time {}:\n{}".format(subList_counter, time.strftime('%H:%M:%S'), globals()['subList_{}'.format(subList_counter)]))
print("Updated subList_{} at time {}:\n{}".format(subList_counter, datetime.now().strftime('%d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S.%f'), globals()['subList_{}'.format(subList_counter)]))
subList_counter += 1
globals()['subList_{}'.format(subList_counter)] = []
# if len(globalList) > 0:
# print("Updated globalList at time {}:\n{}\n".format(time.strftime('%H:%M:%S'), globalList))
timeList_counter += 1
time.sleep(5 - ((time.time() - startTime) % 5)) # repeat every 5 seconds