Jeffrey Yasskin <jyass...@gmail.com> added the comment: Java's Timer class tends to be discouraged these days in favor of ScheduledExecutorService.scheduleAtFixedRate and .scheduleWithFixedDelay (http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ScheduledExecutorService.html). Could you say why you modeled this interface off of java.util.Timer instead of ScheduledExecutor? See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3148/ for the basis of executors in Python.
I'm skeptical of having a PeriodicTimer that embeds a fixed-delay timing. Both fixed-rate and fixed-delay are useful for different things, and given the ambiguity we probably shouldn't give in to the temptation to guess. I'm skeptical of having a new thread per periodic task. It's a little more work to multiplex tasks onto shared threads, and maybe that work isn't worth it for now, but I think the interface should allow future implementations to multiplex their tasks. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1676820> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
