Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds

From	Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject	Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds
Date	2015-01-14 16:54 +0000
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On 14/01/2015 16:33, Dave Angel wrote:
>
> Note that neither Timer nor sleep makes any promises about how
> accurately it matches the requested time.
>

Reminds me of working on Telematics S200/300/4000/5000 telecomms kit in 
the early 90s where the timers were mains based, so a one hour timer 
would go off at about one hour, 30 seconds.  Programming becomes such 
fun working around such things :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-14 16:54 +0000
  Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-01-14 17:37 +0000
    Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-14 17:54 +0000
      Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-01-14 18:05 +0000

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