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Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs

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On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:37:34 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt
<ulrich.eckhardt@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.

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how to call a function for evry 10 secs hisan <santosh.ssit@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 10:39 -0700
  Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-30 03:42 +1000
  Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-06-29 22:06 -0700
    Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-06-30 09:05 +0200
    Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2011-06-30 10:37 +0200
      Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-06-30 09:42 -0700
        Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2011-06-30 21:04 +0200
          Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-06-30 23:29 -0700
          Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2011-07-01 08:50 +0200
      Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-06-30 18:18 +0100
      Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-01 03:36 +1000
      Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-30 11:42 -0600

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