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Python/Jython - threading.Timer()

Ype Kingma ykingma at accessforall.nl
Fri Dec 20 13:26:56 EST 2002 
VLP wrote:

> Ype Kingma <ykingma at accessforall.nl> wrote in message
> news:<3e021ce6$0$129$e4fe514c at dreader5.news.xs4all.nl>...
>> The Timer class is new in 2.2.
>> This might do the trick:
>> 
>> from threading import Thread
>> import time
>> 
>> class Timer(Thread):
>>     def __init__(self, interval, function, *args, **kwargs):
>>         Thread.__init__()
>>         self.interval = interval
>>         self.function = function
>>         self.args = args
>>         self.kwargs = kwargs
>>         self.start()
>> 
>>     def run(self):
>>         time.sleep(self.interval)
>>         return self.function(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
>> 
>> I'm not sure about the args and kwargs stuff, but it works without
>> arguments.
>> You could probably just copy the Timer class from the python 2.2
>> distribution; I don't have it ready here.
>> 
>> Have fun,
>> Ype
> 
> Thanks a lot... this works great!

You can delete the final return, the return value is ignored anyway.

Have fun,
Ype

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