[issue29569] threading.Timer class: Continue periodical execution till action returns True

slytomcat added the comment: done 2017-06-06 14:28 GMT+03:00 Cheryl Sabella : > > Cheryl Sabella added the comment: > > This bug report has been closed, but the PR is still open. Please close > the PR. Thank you. > > -- > nosy: +csabella > >

[issue29569] threading.Timer class: Continue periodical execution till action returns True

Cheryl Sabella added the comment: This bug report has been closed, but the PR is still open. Please close the PR. Thank you. -- nosy: +csabella ___ Python tracker

[issue29569] threading.Timer class: Continue periodical execution till action returns True

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[issue29569] threading.Timer class: Continue periodical execution till action returns True

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: This will obviously break some existing code which passes a function returning true to Timer. I concur with Raymond: I don't think this is a good idea. Also, the Timer class itself is a rather simplistic answer to the problem of scheduling callbacks in the

[issue29569] threading.Timer class: Continue periodical execution till action returns True

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Antoine, do you care to make the call on this one? -- assignee: -> pitrou nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___

[issue29569] threading.Timer class: Continue periodical execution till action returns True

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Ideally, proposed API expansions should be based on a demonstrated user need. This API is over decade old and I don't recall a single user request for this functionality. A quick scan of StackOverflow didn't turn-up any questions or answers on the

[issue29569] threading.Timer class: Continue periodical execution till action returns True

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[issue29569] threading.Timer class: Continue periodical execution till action returns True

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[issue29569] threading.Timer class: Continue periodical execution till action returns True

New submission from slytomcat: I think that functionality of threading.Timer class can be easily extended to generate the sequence of runs with specified period. The idea comes from the GLib.timeout_add function. Run method of threading.Timer should look like: def run(self):

[issue29569] threading.Timer class: Continue periodical execution till action returns True

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