Timer

[Roy Smith]

In article <3f9d1775$0$23584$5a62ac22 at freenews.iinet.net.au>,
Derek Fountain  <nomail at hursley.ibm.com> wrote:
>Dave Harrison wrote:
>
>>> > > Does Python have a timer mechanism? i.e. an "after 500 milliseconds,
>>> > > run this bit of code" sort of thing?
>> 
>> why not just use the time.sleep() function ?
>
>Because that stops the thread.

Check out the threading module.  In particular, the threading.Timer class.