Python/Jython - threading.Timer()

[VLP]

Ype Kingma <ykingma at accessforall.nl> wrote in message news:<3e021ce6$0$129$e4fe514c at dreader5.news.xs4all.nl>...
> The Timer class is new in 2.2.
> This might do the trick:
> 
> from threading import Thread
> import time
> 
> class Timer(Thread):
>     def __init__(self, interval, function, *args, **kwargs):
>         Thread.__init__()
>         self.interval = interval
>         self.function = function
>         self.args = args
>         self.kwargs = kwargs
>         self.start()
> 
>     def run(self):
>         time.sleep(self.interval)
>         return self.function(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
> 
> I'm not sure about the args and kwargs stuff, but it works without 
> arguments.
> You could probably just copy the Timer class from the python 2.2
> distribution; I don't have it ready here.
> 
> Have fun,
> Ype

Thanks a lot... this works great!

Regards,
VLP