equivalent to Tcl 'after' command?

[Giles Brown]

Mark Harrison <mh at pixar.com> wrote in message news:<huThc.54272$9V6.15414 at newssvr25.news.prodigy.com>...
> I'm writing some event-driven programs, and I would like
> to do the equivalent of the Tcl 'after' command, e.g.:
> 
> 	after 1000 {puts "one second has elapsed"}
> 
> 1.  What's the most canonical way of doing this?

Not exactly canonical (I certainly haven't used it more than once if that), but
there is the standard library "sched" module.

Giles