Using Python's sleep() to Create a Simple Uptime Bot

Have you ever needed to make your Python program wait for something? You might use a Python sleep() call to simulate a delay in your program. Perhaps you need to wait for a file to upload or download, or for a graphic to load or be drawn to the screen. You might even need to pause between calls to a web API, or between queries to a database.

You will build a simple bot script that will check a website to determine if it is currently up. The course goes into refactoring and optimizing the code.

[Pythonology]

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[azkaarkhatib]

How come your code stopped with keyboard interrupt when your except block does not have Exception in it???

[letsdoitmariistyle]

I are no fan of sleep at all. I want to create a program with a strict purpose: query an url and see if it is up. Then I schedule to run this program using a cronjob. Is more intuative for me at least.