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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs |
| Date | 2011-06-30 23:29 -0700 |
| Organization | > Bestiaria Support Staff < |
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:04:56 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt
<ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:
>
> So this seems to confirm that it's a 32-bit underflow while preparing the
> argument for win32's Sleep() function.
>
> That said, an "IOError" is a bit better but still leaves room for
> improvement. I'll take this to the developers mailinglist and see if they
> consider the behaviour a bug. At the very least the docs are bad, I would
> say.
>
"RuntimeError" or "OSError" would seem to be better than "IOError";
though having the Python runtime incorporate a max(delay, 0) behind the
scenes would prevent both OS type behaviors.
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Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
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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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