re : do something in time interval

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"Petr Jakeš" <petr.jakes@tpc .czwrote:

>"Leon Zhang" <safecom@gmail. comwrote:
>

>>
>I am not an expert, but why not to use time.sleep(5)?
>If you are using wxPython, you may also try wx.Timer, in which you could
>set its interval.
>>
>>

>Thanks for your reply.
>During the 5s period my script has to do some stuff instead of sleeping.
>Thats why it runs in the loop and once in 5s period it has to trigger some
>other stuff(function, method, action) to do.

import time
while True:
end_time = time.time() + 5
while time.time() < end_time:
do_the_in_betwe en_stuff()
do_the_every_fi ve_second_stuff ()

HTH - Hendrik

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Re: re : do something in time interval

In message <mailman.2134.1 223400793.3487. python-list@python.org >, Hendrik
van Rooyen wrote:

import time
while True:
end_time = time.time() + 5
while time.time() < end_time:
do_the_in_betwe en_stuff()
do_the_every_fi ve_second_stuff ()

Maybe I'm dense, but ... where do you stop the busy-waiting?