Thanks for the hint, although using sched it is more complex for just one background activity, the priority part solves many problems with 2 or more activities in parallel.
I managed to create a task with equivalent functionality using an action that re-schedules itself each time is called... the solution has some cutting edges: - I need an object to keep the event id or otherwise it is impossible to cancel the action (the event changes each time) - scheduler.run blocks the main thread (or you need to call it constantly) so it is necessary to call it in its own Thread. but it has the great benefit of controlling the priority between two or more actions. My original Ticker class is simpler but looking at this option with sched it may be too simple. Nevertheless for a user that just want one easy command run periodically (like printing to stdout a heartbeat message) maybe is worth to have it. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/GGY2VM2LU57VJD2JJTBLLAVZCCYTKN2R/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
