Hi, I'm having trouble finding any information (or if it's possible) on this particular topic.
Specifically, there's a feature in javascript that I want to emulate. this is an example I pulled from a webmonkey tutorial -------------------------- function writeTime() { // get a date object var today = new Date(); // ask the object for some information var hours = today.getHours(); var minutes = today.getMinutes(); var seconds = today.getSeconds(); // fixTime makes the minutes and seconds look right // it just sticks a zero in front of numbers less than 10 minutes = fixTime(minutes); seconds = fixTime(seconds); // put together the time string and write it out var the_time = hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds; window.document.the_form.the_text.value = the_time; // run this function again in half a second the_timeout= setTimeout('writeTime();',500); } function fixTime(the_time) { if (the_time <10) { the_time = "0" + the_time; } return the_time; } --------------- The specific bit I'm looking at is this line the_timeout = setTimeout('writeTime();',500); basically it calls the function again in 500ms, but rather than pausing, I guess it spawns a new thread? I'm not really sure. >From the little experience I have in JS it appears that multiple "timers" can be running at a time, all the code "in between" the timeouts will execute, and when the timeout is finished it will execute whatever the command is (in this case, 'writeTime();'). So I'm trying to find out a pythonic equivalent (if there is one). So far Googling for "python timeout" gives me no helpful results, and "python threading" gives me some examples that are close to what I think I'm looking for. Now, when I look at that example and try to translate the timeout to what I think is going on "behind the scenes" I'm pretty sure it spawns a thread that does something similar to this: 1 import time 2 3 def timer(end, exe): 4 start = time.time() 5 while True: 6 now = time.time() 7 if (now - start) >= end: 8 break 9 exe() 10 11 def execute_this(): 12 for x in range(1, 10): 13 print x 14 15 timer(5, execute_this) Am I correct? Is there a python built-in for this? Where should I go to learn more? Is there anything "wrong" with using a function like this? Thanks in advance, Wayne -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. - Primo Levi _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor