I have been using Twisted for years but only recently began to use inlineCallbacks (couldn't give up Python 2.4 support until recently). This simple asynch. sleep function is fantastic. Just today I used to it with inlineCallbacks to dramatically clean up some complex deferred logic. Thanks,
Brian
Mikhail Terekhov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Phil Christensen <[1]phil@bubblehouse.org>
> wrote:> [2]http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.internet.defer.Deferred.html#setTimeout
>
> Paul's example will work just fine. Also, AFAIK there's no existing
> twisted function to do replicate an asynchronous sleep() in this way.
>
> -phil
>
> What about Deferred.setTimeout?
> IMHO it solves similar problem.Deferred.setTimeout is a poor API and is deprecated (despite what the
automatically generated API docs think).
<http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/178> has some discussion (and links to
more discussion) explaining what's wrong with it, and what a good replacement
would look like.
So please, don't use setTimeout, and definitely do not recommend it to others!
-Andrew.
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