hmm.. why use while True? After 5 secs, the function is going to run. so t = threading.Thread(5.0, func) t.start()
should just work. Put it in a infinite loop will start the thread and then start a the stopped thread... forever. Jim On Jul 6, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Jonathan Shan wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to call a function every 5 seconds. My understanding of > time.sleep() is during the sleep time everything "stops". However, in > my application, there are background processes that must be running > continuously during the five second interval. Thus, threading.Timer > seems like a good function. Here is the relevant code: > > # background processes > t = threading.Timer(5.0, function_name, [arguments]) > while True: > # Do background processes run inside while loop? > t.start() > > The above code generates an error: > AssertionError: thread already started > > Any hints on how to fix the error? Also, do background processes run > inside while loops? > > Thanks in advance, > Jonathan Shan > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
