On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com> wrote:
Twisted's DelayedCall is different from Deferred, it used for reactor.callLater and returned from this function (the same as call_later from tulip) Interface is: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted/internet/interfaces.py#L... Implementation is http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted/internet/base.py#L35 DelayedCall from twisted has nothing common with Deferred, it's just an interface for scheduled activity, which can be called once, cancelled or rescheduled to another time.
I've found that concept very useful when I used twisted.
Oh dear. I had no idea there was something named DelayedCall in Twisted. There is no intention of similarity. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)