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Subject: Re: how to call a function for evry 10 secs
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:15:19 -0700 (PDT), Rune Strand
<rune.strand@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> from threading import Timer
> 
> def Func_to_call:
>    do_stuff()
> 
> my_timer = Timer(10, Func_to_call)
> my_timer.start()

	Timer() is a one-shot; per the OPs requirements even it would need
to be placed within a loop to invoke multiple calls -- so there isn't
much gain in terms of lines of code... And worse, since it calls the
function asynchronously and not sequentially, a delay time for each
instance would have to be computed inside the loop too...
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