Evaluating a Function After X Seconds: Python Equivalent to JavaScript's SetTimeout() Function

Hi all,

Not exactly new to Python, just have not programmed a time dependent
function using it before.

I imagine that many of you may also program some JavaScript and may be
familiar with JavaScript's SetTimeout( expression, after time interval
in milliseconds) function. Does Python have an equivalent to this?

A SetTimeout-like Python function would be ideal for my application.


Best,

Y-coci

ycoci0@gmail.com

Yea -- the "sched" class is exactly what you need. Just import sched
and then use it to schedule a function call in the future, either using
relative time or an absolute time. The python help file tells you how
in detail.
- Ken

wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Not exactly new to Python, just have not programmed a time dependent
> function using it before.
>
> I imagine that many of you may also program some JavaScript and may be
> familiar with JavaScript's SetTimeout( expression, after time interval
> in milliseconds) function. Does Python have an equivalent to this?
>
> A SetTimeout-like Python function would be ideal for my application.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Y-coci

On 11 Jun 2006 20:01:28 -0700, declaimed the following
in comp.lang.python:

> I imagine that many of you may also program some JavaScript and may be
> familiar with JavaScript's SetTimeout( expression, after time interval
> in milliseconds) function. Does Python have an equivalent to this?
>
I don't know? How does "SetTimeout" actually behave? Asynchronously?
Synchronously? That is... would

import time

print "I'm tired"
time.sleep(60)
print "Ah, a short nap"

be the type of behavior you are wanting?

Or do you mean you want to do other stuff while the timer is
running, then have the program interrupted to run the timed function,
and then return to the main program?
--
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Dennis Lee Bieber schrieb:
> I don't know? How does "SetTimeout" actually behave? Asynchronously?
> Synchronously? That is... would

The former. It is the poor-mans threading of JavaScript so to speak.

Diez