Is there any method to append minute per specific interval?

Question

What I want to do is to make specific minute be added from now. For example.

Let's assume that it's 10:09 now. Then the minute is gonna be 9. And we assume that the interval is 5 minutes. Then the list has to be like this:

[9, 14, 19, 24, 29, 34, 39, 44, 49, 54, 59, 4, 9, ....]

Does anyone has solution?

Is this meant to be an infinite list? – costaparas Jan 30 '21 at 13:15 — costaparas, Jan 30 '21 at 13:15
I want to make this list length to be 1000 – Jan 30 '21 at 13:17 — , Jan 30 '21 at 13:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 30 '21 at 13:20

One way to think about it is that each element is the starting minute plus the index times the interval, and then take the remainder from dividing by 60 (an hour). Put it all together and you get:

start = 9
interval = 5
minutes = [(start + i * interval) % 60 for i in range(1000)]

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '21 at 13:19

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This is what you are looking for?

import datetime

interval = 5
result_size = 10
current_minute = datetime.datetime.now().minute
result = [(current_minute + i * interval) % 60 for i in range(result_size)]

answered Jan 30 '21 at 13:19

Hugo

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 30 '21 at 13:23

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def minutes_generator(start, delta=5):
  x = start
  while True:
    yield x
    x = (x + delta) % 60

g = minutes_generator(9, 5)
lst  = [next(g) for _ in range(20)]
print(lst)  # --> [9, 14, 19, 24, 29, 34, 39, 44, 49, 54, 59, 4, 9, 14, 19, 24, 29, 34, 39, 44]

answered Jan 30 '21 at 13:23

Lior Cohen

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Please add a short description into your question – STA Jan 30 '21 at 14:24

Is there any method to append minute per specific interval?

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