Hi Justin, Does Professor Battersea know you're using his gmail account? *wink*
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:16:12 -0400, Prof. William Battersea wrote: > I'd like a class method to fire every n seconds. > > I tried this: > > class Timed: > def.__init__(self): > self.t = Timer(3, self.dothing) > def.start(self): > self.t.start() > > def.dothing(self): > print "Doing Thing" > > s = new Timed() > s.start() This can't be your actual code, because "s = new Timed()" gives a SyntaxError. So does "def.start(self)" etc. Also, what's Timer? > And: > > class Scheduled: > def.__init__(self): > self.s = sched.scheduler(time.time, time.sleep) > self.s.enter(3, 1, self.sync, ()) > > def.start(self): > self.t.start() > > def.dothing(self): > print "Syncing" > > s = new Scheduled() > s.start() When I fix the syntax errors and try to run the above code, I get this: AttributeError: Scheduled instance has no attribute 'sync' That's only the first of a number of errors. You waste our time when you post code that doesn't run. Very few people will bother spending the time and effort to fix your code if you don't respect their time, and those that do will rub your nose in the fact that you're wasting their time. > Both run once and end. I'm obviously missing something here. Let's start with some code that actually does run: >>> class Scheduled: ... def __init__(self): ... self.s = sched.scheduler(time.time, time.sleep) ... self.s.enter(3, 1, self.dothing, ()) ... def start(self): ... self.s.run() ... self.s.enter(3, 1, self.dothing, ()) ... self.start() ... def dothing(self): ... print "Syncing" ... >>> s = Scheduled() >>> s.start() Syncing Syncing Syncing Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "<stdin>", line 8, in start File "<stdin>", line 8, in start File "<stdin>", line 8, in start File "<stdin>", line 6, in start File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sched.py", line 108, in run delayfunc(time - now) KeyboardInterrupt This will run until you interrupt it (as I did) or you run out of space on the stack due to recursion. I imagine this is probably not the best way to do what you want. Hint for further explorations: the scheduler keeps a queue of events. If the queue becomes empty, it stops. You only need to restart the scheduler with run() if it stopped, otherwise it keeps going. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list