How do I set up a timer as a subprocess?
Shitiz Bansal
shitizb at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 10 11:51:04 EST 2005
import threading
def hello():
print "hello, world"
t = threading.Timer(30.0, hello)
t.start() # after 30 seconds, "hello, world" will be
printed
--- Dfenestr8 <chrisdewinN0SPAM at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Trying to set up a timer function for my irc bot,
> which uses the python
> irclib.py.
>
> If I use time.sleep(20), it tends to freeze up the
> bot completely for 20
> secs. That's not what I want though! I want the
> program to wait 20 secs,
> then perform another function, but in the meantime
> be able to accept other
> commands.
>
> How do I do that?
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