[Tutor] Timer() (was: (no subject)

[Terry Carroll]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Liam Clarke wrote:

> Do you need to use the threading module? Or are you using solely the timer?

I was wondering that too, as a general case.  What is the advantage of 
having a facility to delayedly start a thread?  I'd expect that this could 
be done just as effectively, in the rare case it's needed, by just putting 
a sleep() call in the thread.

Why would you ever need something like Timer() ?