This python program for reminder notification slows down computer, what is wrong with the code here? I have already done pip install plyer

Question

I am new to python programming and was trying to make this program work which is supposed to work as a drink water windows notification reminder.

# importing python’s standard time utility module
import time

from plyer import notification

if __name__ == '__main__':
    while True:
        notification.notify(
            title = "**Please Drink Water Now!!",
            message ="The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine determined that an adequate daily fluid intake is: About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids for men. About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women.",
            app_icon = "C:/Users/swast/OneDrive/Desktop/pythProject/media/icon.png",
            timeout= 12
            )

time.sleep(6)

Whenever I try to run this program, my computer slows down for some reason and the output tab beside the terminal keeps on going while there is no notification, what am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Here is the hotfix to your code as suggested:

# importing python’s standard time utility module
import time

from plyer import notification

if __name__ == '__main__':
    while True:
        notification.notify(
            title = "**Please Drink Water Now!!",
            message ="The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine determined that an adequate daily fluid intake is: About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids for men. About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women.",
            app_icon = "C:/Users/swast/OneDrive/Desktop/pythProject/media/icon.png",
            timeout= 12
            )

        time.sleep(6)

A proper way to do this would be to use a crontab to call the script at desired times. The script would call notification.notify only once.