Timer runs only once.

siva gnanam sivagnanam.student at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 10:06:02 EST 2016


On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 8:11:49 PM UTC+5:30, vnthma... at gmail.com wrote:
> from threading import Timer
> 
> class TestTimer:
>     def foo(self):
>         print("hello world")
>         self.startTimer()
> 
>     def startTimer(self):
>         self.t1 = Timer(5, self.foo)
>         self.t1.start()
> 
> timer = TestTimer()
> timer.startTimer()

I think in this example, We are creating Timer object every 5 seconds. So      every time it will span a new Timer. I don't know what happened to the previous timers we created.



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