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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Hi,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">I recently
encountered a problem when creating timers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">It
seems that creating a timer with a floating point interval or delay throws an
exception:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">>>>
def _callback(n): pass</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">>>>
timer = System.Threading.Timer(_callback, None, 100, 0) # Works fine<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>>>> timer =
System.Threading.Timer(_callback, None, 100.1, 0) # Throws exception</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Traceback
(most recent call last):</p>
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File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">TypeError:
expected TimerCallback, got function</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">How
can I solve this?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">Thanks.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL"><span dir="LTR"> </span></p>
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