[Tutor] refresh-function

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On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:34:34PM +0200, Thomas Jacobsen wrote:
| Hi,
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| I have a program that needs a function that is running in a "while 1:" lo=
op,
| that runs with an interval, while other parts of the program is running.=
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| I was thinking of start the function in a thread, and use a  time.sleep
| method, so the whole program doesn't sleep, but i don't know if this is t=
he
| right/best way to do it.

That sounds like a good idea, as long as sleeping for a specific
amount of time is how "interval" is defined for your function.
Especially when using threads, you should be sure and understand the
Lock and Event classes from the threading module.  Depending on your
application, it may be better to use those instead of sleep().

HTH,
-D

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