"Scott David Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > > I want to do the equivalent of the after thingy in tkinter - setting up in > > effect a timed call back. > > > > My use case is as a "supervisory" timer - I want to set up an alarm, which I > > want to cancel if the expected occurrence occurs - but its not a GUI app. > > Use a thread that uses something like: > def action(): > sleep(50) > if not canceled: > callback(foo) > as its action. > > The callback ill be in another thread, but .... Look up threading for > more details. Thanks - I was hoping that I did not have to do it myself - the Tkinter thingy works nicely - I was hoping that the interpreter could handle something like this... What I don't like too much about the sleep based solution is that yer blind and deaf while sleeping - at least in that thread - and I am trying for fairly fine grained timing resolution... is there not something based on signals? - I seem to recall some such thing here in another thread.. ( I am running Linux) -Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
