Timer

[Alexandre Fayolle]

Re: Timer

Derek Fountain a écrit :[color=blue]
> Does Python have a timer mechanism? i.e. an "after 500 milliseconds, run
> this bit of code" sort of thing?[/color]

The sched module in the standard library may be what you're looking for.

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[Michael Hudson]

Re: Concurrency models (was: Timer)

Alex Martelli <aleax@aleax.it > writes:
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> Michael Hudson wrote:
> ...[color=green][color=darkred]
> >> and select -- it depends... but last time I checked I
> >> saw no way to get the "callback on file activity" from
> >> Tkinter as I could back when I used Tcl/Tk...).[/color]
> >
> > Huh? _tkinter.create filehandler() is there (pyrepl uses it). I think
> > only on Unix, but I think that also applies to Tcl_CreateFileH andler,
> > so that's not much of a surprise.[/color]
>
> I could have sworn I got "callbacks on file activity" cross-platform
> when I used Tcl/Tk, but maybe it's just a memory grown rosy with age.[/color]

Well, maybe. I haven't been near a Windows system in months & months
and have never used Tcl/Tk in isolation, so please don't be surprised
when I'm wrong about Tcl on windows :-)

Cheers,
mwh

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