• "Start Now",
  
• "5 minutes",
  
• "2 hours",
  
• "4 hours",
  
• "8 hours".
  

• "Start Now",
  
• "2 hours",
  
• "4 hours",
  
• "8 hours".
  

def display_prompt():
    """Displays prompt to allow user to schedule update installation

    Args:
        None

    Returns:
        (int) defer_seconds: Number of seconds user wishes to defer policy
        OR
        None if an error occurs
    """
    cmd = [JAMFHELPER,
           '-windowType', 'hud',
           '-title', GUI_WINDOW_TITLE,
           '-heading', GUI_HEADING,
           '-icon', GUI_ICON,
           '-description', GUI_MESSAGE,
           '-button1', GUI_BUTTON,
           '-showDelayOptions',
           ' '.join(GUI_DEFER_OPTIONS),
           '-lockHUD']
    error_values = ['2', '3', '239', '243', '250', '255']
    # Instead of returning an error code to stderr, jamfHelper always returns 0
    # and possibly returns an 'error value' to stdout. This makes it somewhat
    # spotty to check for some deferrment values including 0 for 'Start Now'.
    # The return value is an integer, so leading zeroes are dropped. Selecting
    # 'Start Now' should technically return '01'; instead, only '1' is returned
    # which matches the 'error value' for 'The Jamf Helper was unable to launch'
    # All we can do is make sure the subprocess doesn't raise an error, then
    # assume (yikes!) a return value of '1' equates to 'Start Now'
    try:
        proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
        out, err = proc.communicate()
        # Check that the return value does not represent an 'error value'
        if not out in error_values:
            # Special case for 'Start Now' which returns '1'
            if out == '1':
                return 0
            else:
                return int(out[:-1])
        else:
            return None
    except:
        # Catch possible CalledProcessError and OSError
        print "An error occurred when displaying the user prompt."
        return None

class ChoiceError(Exception):
    pass

class RestartChoices():

    def __init__(self):
        self.reset_choices()

    def reset_choices(self):
        self.choices = ["Start Now", "5 minutes", "2 hours", "4 hours",
                        "8 hours"]
        self.last_choice = ''

    def make_choice(self, choice):
        if choice not in self.choices:
            raise ChoiceError('invalid choice')
        self.last_choice = choice
        if choice == self.choices[-1] or choice == self.choices[0]:
            self.choices = []
            return

        choice_index = self.choices.index(choice) + 1
        self.choices = self.choices[:1] + self.choices[choice_index:]

restart_choices = RestartChoices()
restart_choices.make_choice('5 minutes')
print(f'choice: {restart_choices.last_choice}')
print(f'Remaining: {restart_choices.choices}')

restart_choices.make_choice('4 hours')
print(f'choice: {restart_choices.last_choice}')
print(f'Remaining: {restart_choices.choices}')

restart_choices.make_choice('8 hours')
print(f'choice: {restart_choices.last_choice}')
print(f'Remaining: {restart_choices.choices}')

restart_choices.reset_choices()
restart_choices.make_choice('2 hours')
print(f'choice: {restart_choices.last_choice}')
print(f'Remaining: {restart_choices.choices}')

restart_choices.reset_choices()
restart_choices.make_choice('Start Now')
print(f'choice: {restart_choices.last_choice}')
print(f'Remaining: {restart_choices.choices}')

Output:
choice: 5 minutes
Remaining: ['Start Now', '2 hours', '4 hours', '8 hours']
choice: 4 hours
Remaining: ['Start Now', '8 hours']
choice: 8 hours
Remaining: []
choice: 2 hours
Remaining: ['Start Now', '4 hours', '8 hours']
choice: Start Now
Remaining: []

def display_prompt():

 class ChoiceError(Exception): ??? 

restart_choices = RestartChoices()
restart_choices.make_choice('15 minutes')

Output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Dave\Documents\Eclipse Workspace\Test\forum\forum_post.py", line 29, in <module>
    restart_choices.make_choice('15 minutes')
  File "C:\Users\Dave\Documents\Eclipse Workspace\Test\forum\forum_post.py", line 17, in make_choice
    raise ChoiceError('invalid choice')
__main__.ChoiceError: invalid choice

def display_prompt(): 

class RestartChoices():

(May-02-2019, 10:13 PM)SheeppOSU Wrote: You could make a self in RestartChoices that takes the value of a parameter passed through and then update it with the value of display_prompt

(May-02-2019, 10:13 PM)SheeppOSU Wrote: You could make a self in RestartChoices that takes the value of a parameter passed through and then update it with the value of display_prompt

(May-03-2019, 10:18 PM)SheeppOSU Wrote: I've done a litte C++ which I've heard is similar to C#. In C++ classes are usually made in different files like you said. In Python in depends. When making a game, to shorten code, sometimes functions and classes are put into a separate files. In this case since it is a small amount of code it can go into the same file

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Also create what outside of the current file