> I need what I'd call (in .Net) a timer, ie I need to run a function eg > every 2 seconds - it doesn't need to be millisec accurate but it would > be nice if it wasn't eg every 4 seconds or something. > > Rather surprisingly, Core Python (Chun) doesn't seem to index 'timer' > or 'scheduler', which leaves me wondering whether this is an aspect of > Python that isn't perhaps widely used? > > Looking around on the net I can see references to a thread timer, but > I'm not really looking to start any new threads (I just want part of > the GUI to update every 2 secs) and don't want to get into that sort > of complication while still just learning Python. > > Is there really no simple timer/scheduler function available in > Python?
You might want to look at scheduler.py from turbogears which is exactly the tool you describe and luckily is 99.99% independent of turbogears. I'd think you need to modify 1-2 lines: http://svn.turbogears.org/tags/1.0.4.4/turbogears/scheduler.py Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list