On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 8:06 AM, siva gnanam
<sivagnanam.stud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 8:11:49 PM UTC+5:30, vnthma...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>> from threading import Timer
>>
>> class TestTimer:
>> def foo(self):
>> print("hello world")
>> self.startTimer()
>>
>> def startTimer(self):
>> self.t1 = Timer(5, self.foo)
>> self.t1.start()
>>
>> timer = TestTimer()
>> timer.startTimer()
>
> I think in this example, We are creating Timer object every 5 seconds. So
> every time it will span a new Timer. I don't know what happened to the
> previous timers we created.
Correct. Each Timer only fires once, and then the thread that it's
running in exits. After that the Timer will eventually be
garbage-collected like any other object that's no longer referenced.
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