On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:21:41 -0700, TomF wrote: > I'm writing a simple simulator, and I want to schedule an action to > occur at a later time. Basically, at some later point I want to call a > function f(a, b, c). But the values of a, b and c are determined at the > current time. > > One way way to do this is to keep a list of entries of the form [[TIME, > FN, ARGS]...] and at simulated time TIME do: apply(FN, ARGS) Aside from > the fact that apply is deprecated,
Instead of apply(f, args) you should write: f(*args) If you have keyword arguments as well (or instead): f(*args, **kwargs) > it seems like there should be a > cleaner (possibly more Pythonic) way to do this. Ideas? Chris Rebert has already mentioned the sched module. Otherwise, put the function call in a thread, and have the thread use time.sleep to wait until the right time to execute. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
