On Wednesday, 30 November 2016 20:36:15 UTC+5:30, siva gnanam wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 8:11:49 PM UTC+5:30, vnthma...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> > from threading import Timer
> >
> > class TestTimer:
> > def foo(self):
> > print("hello world")
> > self.startTimer()
> >
> > def startTimer(self):
> > self.t1 = Timer(5, self.foo)
> > self.t1.start()
> >
> > timer = TestTimer()
> > timer.startTimer()
>
> I think in this example, We are creating Timer object every 5 seconds. So
> every time it will span a new Timer. I don't know what happened to the
> previous timers we created.
It will be garbage collected. The timer object will go out of scope. Python gc
is very efficient as it clears the object as and when the obj moves out of scope
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