how to call a function for evry 10 secs

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On 30/06/2011 17:42, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:37:34 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt
> <ulrich.eckhardt at dominolaser.com>  declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> "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.
>>
> 	WinXP, Python 2.5.<something>
>
> 	And that was a direct cut&paste from a command window; showing it
> had slept for some 90 seconds before I killed it.
>
Looks like it hasn't changed even in WinXP, Python 3.2.

Is IOError what you'd expect, anyway?

What should it do in Python 3.2? Exception or max(seconds, 0)?