Correct way to do timer function in Python
- by bwawok
Hi. I have a GUI application that needs to do something simple in the background (update a wx python progress bar, but that doesn't really matter). I see that there is a threading.timer class.. but there seems to be no way to make it repeat. So if I use the timer, I end up having to make a new thread on every single execution... like :
import threading
import time
def DoTheDew():
print "I did it"
t = threading.Timer(1, function=DoTheDew)
t.daemon = True
t.start()
if __name__ == '__main__':
t = threading.Timer(1, function=DoTheDew)
t.daemon = True
t.start()
time.sleep(10)
This seems like I am making a bunch of threads that do 1 silly thing and die.. why not write it as :
import threading
import time
def DoTheDew():
while True:
print "I did it"
time.sleep(1)
if __name__ == '__main__':
t = threading.Thread(target=DoTheDew)
t.daemon = True
t.start()
time.sleep(10)
Am I missing some way to make a timer keep doing something? Either of these options seems silly... I am looking for a timer more like a java.util.Timer that can schedule the thread to happen every second... If there isn't a way in Python, which of my above methods is better and why?
