do something in time interval

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"Petr Jakeš" <petr.jakes at tpc.cz> wrote:

>"Leon Zhang" <safecom at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am not an expert, but why not to use time.sleep(5)?
>> If you are using wxPython, you may also try wx.Timer, in which you could
>> set its interval.
>>
>>
>Thanks for your reply.
>During the 5s period my script has to do some stuff instead of sleeping.
>Thats why it runs in the loop and once in 5s period it has to trigger some
>other stuff(function, method, action) to do.


    import time
    while True:
        end_time = time.time() + 5
        while time.time() < end_time:
            do_the_in_between_stuff()
        do_the_every_five_second_stuff()

HTH - Hendrik

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