Hi guys,
One thing that as a python programmer you should be proud of is that it gives you the capability to automate a bunch of repetitive tasks effortlessly just with the basics.
In this article, you’re going to learn about building a cross-platform python program for automating shutdown.
Requirements
In this article, we gonna use OS + Platform to implement our script, both of them comes with the python standard library utilities so you don’t need to install anything
Basics of Platform Module
Platform Module, we will use it to determine the type of Operating system in which our program is running.
Example of usage
>>> import platform >>> platform.system() 'Linux'
If you’re using windows you should see Windows instead of Linux.
Basics of OS Module
OS Module , we are going to use this module to run terminal/command prompt command in Python.
To run run the system command in Python we are going to use system ( )
Example of Usage
>>> import os
>>> os.system('echo hello')
hello
0The command for shutdown computer varies depending on the operating system .
System command for automated shutdown
Below a system command for automating computer shutdown, our task gonna lie on running programmatically do this based on user input from python.
shutdown command for Linux
Syntax
shutdown -t time_in_minutes
Usage
kalebu@kalebu-PC:~$ shutdown -t 12 Shutdown scheduled for Wed 2020-06-03 15:55:40 EAT, use 'shutdown -c' to cancel.
cancelling automated shutdown
kalebu@kalebu-PC:~$ shutdown -c
shutdown command for Window
Syntax
shutdown -s -t time_in_seconds
Usage
shutdown -s -t 1200
Cancelling scheduled shutdown in Window
shutdown -s -t a
Building our Python program.
Therefore we need to get the time parameter to automate the shutdown from the user and then run those command from our Python program.
app.py
import os
import platform
OS_type = platform.system()
OS_type = OS_type.lower()
def shutdown(time):
'''
It automate shutdown by scheduling the
time for computer to shutdown
'''
if OS_type == 'linux':
shutdown_str = 'shutdown -t '+ str(time)
elif OS_type == 'windows':
time = time * 60
shutdown_str == 'shutdown -s -t ' + str(time)
else:
print('Sorry this feature is not available in ', OS_type)
return
os.system(shutdown_str)
def cancel_shutdown():
if OS_type == 'linux':
cancel_str = 'shutdown -c'
elif OS_type == 'windows':
cancel_str = 'shutdown -a'
else:
return
os.system(cancel_str)
def main():
print('Use Shutup To schedule your shutdown'.center(50, '='))
print('1.Automate Shutdown\n2.Cancel shutdown')
option = int(input('Option here: '))
if option == 1:
time = int(input('\nEnter time to shutdown in Minutes : '))
shutdown(time)
elif option == 2:
cancel_shutdown()
print('Shutdown successful canceled ...')
else:
print('Invalid option try again!!!\n')
main()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()Output :
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