wakepy 0.2.0

Simple wakelock / keep-awake / stay-awake

   

⏰😴 wakepy

Simple wakelock written in Python. Keeps your computer from going to sleep.

• Command line utility
• Can be added into your long running scripts

Requirements

Wakepy is currently Windows only. Feel free to submit pull request(s) for other platforms.

Installing

pip install wakepy

Usage

Start from command line

python -m wakepy

Starts the program. While running, computer will not go to sleep. If battery running out, Windows might force laptop to sleep.

Set keepawake within a python script

from wakepy import set_keepawake, unset_keepawake

set_keepawake()
# do stuff that takes long time
unset_keepawake()

Details

Windows

The program simply calls the SetThreadExecutionState with the ES_SYSTEM_REQUIRED flag, when setting the keepawake, and removes flag when unsetting. The flag cannot prevent sleeping if

• User closes the lid of their laptop
• User presses power button
• User selects Sleep from the Start menu.