MineTurte wrote:

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

I tried setting up a scratchattach server with justablock the linled free server but clicking the verify linl leads to a dead website… whats going on
I thoughtaybe it was the safety restrictions on my internet but using a proxy didnt help

I have no clue what justablock or linl is and considering it's a dead website it was either defaced or just… dead. If you have RAM to spare I'd suggest just using shell, terminal, or whatever your computer uses to run a python file with your code in it (and put everything in a “while True:” loop if you don't plan on using something like Crontab, which runs scripts automatically at the specified intervals (limited though as smallest interval is 1 min)). That is the free option. Of course you can use something like replit but replit is now paid for so… yeah.

MineTurte wrote:

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

I tried setting up a scratchattach server with justablock the linled free server but clicking the verify linl leads to a dead website… whats going on
I thoughtaybe it was the safety restrictions on my internet but using a proxy didnt help

I have no clue what justablock or linl is and considering it's a dead website it was either defaced or just… dead. If you have RAM to spare I'd suggest just using shell, terminal, or whatever your computer uses to run a python file with your code in it (and put everything in a “while True:” loop if you don't plan on using something like Crontab, which runs scripts automatically at the specified intervals (limited though as smallest interval is 1 min)). That is the free option. Of course you can use something like replit but replit is now paid for so… yeah.

screen -dmS <name> <command>

screen -dmS scratchserver0 python3 main.py

screen -r <name>

screen -ls

wvzack wrote:

I am trying to make a project that monitors a scratch project so it can record the stats of it (views loves favs remixes) however I have not been able to think of a way to do this efficiently. The project would collect data once per day and save it to some type of file (im thinking with JSON but idk if that's a good choice). Here is what I thought of.
So you have a dictionary that has all the project ids of different projects the code is monitoring as keys, inside of each key in that dictionary you have another dictionary that has every day that it was collecting data. In each of thoughs keys you have a list with 4 items in it: views loves favorites and remixes.

While I think this would maybe work I also think it would take up a lot more power then is needed to make small additions to the data especially if it is getting the stats of a lot of projects at the same time.

Thanks!

MonkeyBean2 wrote:

MineTurte wrote:

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

I tried setting up a scratchattach server with justablock the linled free server but clicking the verify linl leads to a dead website… whats going on
I thoughtaybe it was the safety restrictions on my internet but using a proxy didnt help

I have no clue what justablock or linl is and considering it's a dead website it was either defaced or just… dead. If you have RAM to spare I'd suggest just using shell, terminal, or whatever your computer uses to run a python file with your code in it (and put everything in a “while True:” loop if you don't plan on using something like Crontab, which runs scripts automatically at the specified intervals (limited though as smallest interval is 1 min)). That is the free option. Of course you can use something like replit but replit is now paid for so… yeah.

Restarting it every minute or something is not a good idea, since you will be reconnecting to the cloud server every time which is not good. Plus if you don't kill it after one minute it will create multiple connections which will create conflicts. If crontab doesn't run it if it's still running then this would be fine though, and it would only restart it when necessary.
Instead of using crontab, you can just make sure your script won't exit, or write another script to restart it if it does exit (you can use shell/bash for this), and then just leave your script running. If you want it to run in the background, you can use this command:

screen -dmS <name> <command>

eg.

screen -dmS scratchserver0 python3 main.py

and then to exit it or view its output you can do

screen -r <name>

and if you forgot the name you used you can use

screen -ls

to list all running screen sessions. Once you have gotten back into it with screen -r you can do ctrl+d to stop it.

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

(#1044)
1. Is this instructions for a windows pc?

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

MonkeyBean2 wrote:

MineTurte wrote:

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

I tried setting up a scratchattach server with justablock the linled free server but clicking the verify linl leads to a dead website… whats going on
I thoughtaybe it was the safety restrictions on my internet but using a proxy didnt help

I have no clue what justablock or linl is and considering it's a dead website it was either defaced or just… dead. If you have RAM to spare I'd suggest just using shell, terminal, or whatever your computer uses to run a python file with your code in it (and put everything in a “while True:” loop if you don't plan on using something like Crontab, which runs scripts automatically at the specified intervals (limited though as smallest interval is 1 min)). That is the free option. Of course you can use something like replit but replit is now paid for so… yeah.

Restarting it every minute or something is not a good idea, since you will be reconnecting to the cloud server every time which is not good. Plus if you don't kill it after one minute it will create multiple connections which will create conflicts. If crontab doesn't run it if it's still running then this would be fine though, and it would only restart it when necessary.
Instead of using crontab, you can just make sure your script won't exit, or write another script to restart it if it does exit (you can use shell/bash for this), and then just leave your script running. If you want it to run in the background, you can use this command:

screen -dmS <name> <command>

eg.

screen -dmS scratchserver0 python3 main.py

and then to exit it or view its output you can do

screen -r <name>

and if you forgot the name you used you can use

screen -ls

to list all running screen sessions. Once you have gotten back into it with screen -r you can do ctrl+d to stop it.

1. Is this instructions for a windows pc?
2. I dont have admin priveleges and sign out of my account when Im done using the computer because I dont have a ton of screen time…does this still work when signed out?

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

1. I have a raspberry pi.
2.I have tried to use task scheduoer but Im not the admin of my pc and it never works like it should…
I am actually good now - I finally figured out how to run code on my pi!

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

1. I have a raspberry pi.
2.I have tried to use task scheduoer but Im not the admin of my pc and it never works like it should…
I am actually good now - I finally figured out how to run code on my pi!

wvzack wrote:

So I am using json.dumps to dump data into a txt file and I am wondering if I try to call the function that adds a item to the file from 2 scripts at the same time will I corrupt/lose data?

Maximouse wrote:

wvzack wrote:

So I am using json.dumps to dump data into a txt file and I am wondering if I try to call the function that adds a item to the file from 2 scripts at the same time will I corrupt/lose data?

open() will throw an error if it's called while the other script is using the file.

wvzack wrote:

Maximouse wrote:

wvzack wrote:

So I am using json.dumps to dump data into a txt file and I am wondering if I try to call the function that adds a item to the file from 2 scripts at the same time will I corrupt/lose data?

open() will throw an error if it's called while the other script is using the file.

What if I call the same function that contains open() twice from different scripts will it only run once and again the next second??

wvzack wrote:

Maximouse wrote:

wvzack wrote:

So I am using json.dumps to dump data into a txt file and I am wondering if I try to call the function that adds a item to the file from 2 scripts at the same time will I corrupt/lose data?

open() will throw an error if it's called while the other script is using the file.

What if I call the same function that contains open() twice from different scripts will it only run once and again the next second??

davidtheplatform wrote:

wvzack wrote:

Maximouse wrote:

wvzack wrote:

So I am using json.dumps to dump data into a txt file and I am wondering if I try to call the function that adds a item to the file from 2 scripts at the same time will I corrupt/lose data?

open() will throw an error if it's called while the other script is using the file.

What if I call the same function that contains open() twice from different scripts will it only run once and again the next second??

It will probably throw an error. If open gets called twice on the same file without closing the file the first time it throws an error, no matter where it’s being called from. With that being said, json.dumps() should close whatever file it writes to when it’s done, so unless you have some form of parallelism you shouldn’t have any problems.

wvzack wrote:

davidtheplatform wrote:

wvzack wrote:

Maximouse wrote:

wvzack wrote:

So I am using json.dumps to dump data into a txt file and I am wondering if I try to call the function that adds a item to the file from 2 scripts at the same time will I corrupt/lose data?

open() will throw an error if it's called while the other script is using the file.

What if I call the same function that contains open() twice from different scripts will it only run once and again the next second??

It will probably throw an error. If open gets called twice on the same file without closing the file the first time it throws an error, no matter where it’s being called from. With that being said, json.dumps() should close whatever file it writes to when it’s done, so unless you have some form of parallelism you shouldn’t have any problems.

Yeah I’m using import and then running the function to save a dictionary to the file but his might happen twice at the same time

davidtheplatform wrote:

wvzack wrote:

davidtheplatform wrote:

wvzack wrote:

Maximouse wrote:

wvzack wrote:

So I am using json.dumps to dump data into a txt file and I am wondering if I try to call the function that adds a item to the file from 2 scripts at the same time will I corrupt/lose data?

open() will throw an error if it's called while the other script is using the file.

What if I call the same function that contains open() twice from different scripts will it only run once and again the next second??

It will probably throw an error. If open gets called twice on the same file without closing the file the first time it throws an error, no matter where it’s being called from. With that being said, json.dumps() should close whatever file it writes to when it’s done, so unless you have some form of parallelism you shouldn’t have any problems.

Yeah I’m using import and then running the function to save a dictionary to the file but his might happen twice at the same time

What do you mean by “at the same time”? Are you using a multithreading library or just saving files on a loop, or something else?

georgek0 wrote:

Hi, any advice on how to publish a module?