[IronPython] Timer constructor fails on float

[Dino Viehland]

There's no overload that takes a float - just overloads that take int, int64, and uint32 and TimeSpan objects.  Because there are multiple numeric types we can't pick which one is better to call - we lose precision either way.  I would recommend:

timer = System.Threading.Timer(_callback, None, int(100.1), 0) # Throws exception

From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Idan Zaltzberg
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 10:20 PM
To: users at lists.ironpython.com
Subject: [IronPython] Timer constructor fails on float

Hi,
I recently encountered a problem when creating timers.
It seems that creating a timer with a floating point interval or delay throws an exception:

>>> def _callback(n): pass
...
>>> timer = System.Threading.Timer(_callback, None, 100, 0) # Works fine
>>> timer = System.Threading.Timer(_callback, None, 100.1, 0) # Throws exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: expected TimerCallback, got function

How can I solve this?
Thanks.

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