Time delay loop - better way?
Anthony Baxter
anthonybaxter at gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 23:16:59 EDT 2004
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:28:17 -0700, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
> > Q: Is there some way to gracefully suspend a python app for a second or
> > so then resume? I could write the classic basic dumb
> > loop-tenzillion-times delay, but that seems inelegant, and well, just
> > wrong. By the way, I'm also using wxPython, if that helps any.
>
> wxTimer
>
> The wxPython demo and documentation are your friends.
Note, though, that wxTimer guarantees only 1Hz-1000Hz. On windows, you
get only about 40-50Hz. This makes it completely unsuitable for some tasks.
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