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, it seems like there > should be a cleaner (possibly more Pythonic) way to do this. Ideas?
You can prepare the function fstar = functools.partial(f, a, b, c) and later invoke it as fstar() Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list