how to call a function for evry 10 secs

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> But if the function itself runs for longer than 10 seconds, there
> will be a major problem, as the sleep apparently takes the argument as
> unsigned, and a negative number is a very big sleep!

"time.sleep()" takes a floating point number, so an underflow like for 
fixed-size integers in C shouldn't happen. What puzzles me here is your use 
of "apparently", because here a negative value actually raises an "IOError: 
[Errno 22] Invalid argument" when I call "sleep(-1)".

The system I'm on is a Debian GNU/Linux system running on some x86 hardware, 
for the record, and I'm using Python 2.6.6.

Uli

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