equivalent to Tcl 'after' command?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> after 1000 {puts "one second has elapsed"}
> 
> 1.  What's the most canonical way of doing this?
> 
> 2.  What's the best reference that talks about non-gui event loop
>     programming in Python?

Has been a while since I used tcl/tk, so I'm a bit rusty here. But AFAIK
that after stuff was needed when the tk event loop took over control. Sooo
- _if_ you use a toolkit, it most probably features such a facility.

In python, such stuff is usually accomplished using threads - and since a
recent version, there is the module sched. Which internally uses threads. I
personally ripped the webware taskkit for recurrent tasks.
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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch