Timed events

[Peter Hansen]

Sam Marrocco wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to Python a script that will perform a function every few
> seconds. Is there a particularly efficient way to do this that won't hog
> processor time?

The poor man's version is just to use time.sleep().  It doesn't
hog CPU when in that call.

import time
while 1:
    if exitConditionTrue:
        break
    performAFunction()
    time.sleep(3)


-Peter