(sort of) deterministic timing in Python

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"John Fisher" <jo.....cast.net> wrote:

import time
period_time = TIME_CONSTANT  # The time of a period in seconds - 0.001 is a
millisec

>mark start time

start_time = time.time()

>start event
>        event finishes

event_time = time.time() - start_time
wait_time = period_time-event_time

>count time until next interval

if wait_time > 0:
    time.sleep(wait_time)

>start second event…

that should (sort of) do it.

HTH - Hendrik