Can I increase the value of every item in the list by 1 in every 1 minute in Python?

Question

I would like to do it by constantly checking local time in my computer. Is there also a way to do it by NOT checking with time of local machine? I want to also program not execute certain statements during specific times on my local machine. Let's say it does not execute the if statement between 5 and 7 pm. I would appreciate if someone helped in this topic, please.

Answer 1

Suppose I have a list lst in which I want to append numbers from 0 to 10, once per minute I can do this.

import time

lst = []

for i in range(10):
  lst.append(i)

  time.sleep(60)

Now suppose in the example above, you don't want to append the numbers to the list if the current time is between 5 pm and 7 pm use this.

import datetime
lst = []

for i in range(10):
  current_hour = datetime.datetime.now().hour
  
  if current_hour >= 17 and current_hour < 19:
    pass

  else:
    lst.append(i)

datetime.datetime.now() gets you the current datetime. From this, you can use hour attribute to get the current hour but the hour is in 24hr format.

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These two are just arbitrary examples but would help you understand how you can code time into Python.