Journey to JSR223 Python 2 of 9

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@CrazyIvan359

@rlkoshak why are you assigning the timer to a variable and then adding it to the dict? Have you tried adding it directly to the dict to see if the global is still required?

That is what got me into trouble. That is what I did the first time around (see JSR223 Python: Timer in dict doesn't work). Scott’s recommendation was that I had to promote the Timer to a global and I couldn’t do that by assigning it to the dict directly.

When I do, I get a _Timer type which doesn’t have the getStatus() and stop() functions, the latter of which is required for my use case (I gotta be able to stop the Timer). The Timer did still work though. I just couldn’t see it’s status nor stop it.

@CrazyIvan359

Was this str() conversion necessary?

I don’t remember. Either I got an error or that was what an example I found used and I followed it. Or it was part of some blind flailing about trying to figure out why something wasn’t working. I just tried it without the str and indeed it is not needed. I’ll update the OP.

@CrazyIvan359

You are doing two different None checks here. For alerted you are doing a check for the value being the string "None" , is that what get_key_value() is returning? For name you are checking == None which is no Pythonic, the correct way to make this check is if nameKeyVal is not None . In this case the simplest way to write this would be:

Yep, I just caught that when I looked into the unnecessary str check you just pointed out. The name line was completly broken

And if this is the only thing I’m doing that is not Pythonic I’m not doing too bad. It takes awhile to learn the “proper” way of doing things in a new language. While not as bad as Perl, Python seems to have a lot of ways to do something with one “proper” way.