printqueue.PrintJob Class Reference

A print job containing a string of text to print and an optional timeout parameter. More...

Public Member Functions
def	__init__ (self, str data, int timeout=0)
	Creates a new PrintJob object. More...

Public Attributes
	data
	Container for print jobs.
	time_scheduled
	Time when the job was scheduled. More...
	timeout
	Schedule time for print jobs. More...

Detailed Description

A print job containing a string of text to print and an optional timeout parameter.

A print job should be a short string to avoid taking too long to execute. For longer print strings, break the string into multiple jobs and queue them in order to have faster task execution.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

__init__()

def printqueue.PrintJob.__init__	(		self,
		str	data,
		int	timeout = 0
	)

Creates a new PrintJob object.

Creates a new PrintJob object to hold a string of text to be printed by the PrintQueue

Parameters

data	A short string that the job is containing
timeout	The number of microseconds before the print job should timeout (ie should no longer be printed)

Member Data Documentation

time_scheduled

printqueue.PrintJob.time_scheduled

Time when the job was scheduled.

This starts the timer on a job's lifetime.

timeout

printqueue.PrintJob.timeout

Schedule time for print jobs.

If jobs don't print before their scheduled time, they may be dropped.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• ME305_code/Lab0xFF/printqueue.py