Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> I want to do the equivalent of the after thingy in tkinter - setting up in
> effect a timed call back.
>
> My use case is as a "supervisory" timer - I want to set up an alarm, which I
> want to cancel if the expected occurrence occurs - but its not a GUI app.
Use a thread that uses something like:
def action():
sleep(50)
if not canceled:
callback(foo)
as its action.
The callback ill be in another thread, but .... Look up threading for
more details.
--Scott David Daniels
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