On 3 , 16:01, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:46:59 -0000, ddtm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm using an example of IRC bot (_ttp://twistedmatrix.com/projects/ > >words/documentation/examples/ircLogBot.py) to create my own bot. But I > >have a problem. I'm trying to make my bot send messages periodically. > >But I can't find a way of adding Timer or something similar to my code > >so that it could work. Could somebody modify an example to make IRC > >bot send anything to chat every 20 seconds? > > >P.S. Timer should not lock the main program (I think it should work in > >other thread or so) > >P.P.S. Could somebody write a code of delay between messages too? In > >pseudocode it looks like this: > > sleep(20) > > sendMessage(channel,'lopata') > >This delay should be non-locking too. > >P.P.P.S. Sorry for my bad English (and for a noob question too) > > You can use reactor.callLater to schedule a one-time event to happen at > some future point: > > reactor.callLater(20, sendMessage, channel, 'lopata') > > There is also a utility class, twisted.internet.task.LoopingCall, which > you can use to schedule an event to occur repeatedly at some interval: > > call = LoopingCall(sendMessage, channel, 'lopata') > loopDeferred = call.start(20) > > You can read more about these APIs in the scheduling howto: > > http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/time.html > > Or you can refer to the generated API documentation: > > http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.internet.inter...http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.internet.task.... > > Hope this helps, > > Jean-Paul
Thank you very much! It's a very useful information. One more question: can I cancel the DelayedCall using its ID (it is returned from callLater(...)) from another function? In example bot there are two functions: def joined(self, channel): ... def privmsg(self, user, channel, msg): ... For example, I add callLater(...) to joined(...) function and I'd like to cancel this in privmsg(...) function. What should I do? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
