real time scheduler

[Stuart Ramsden]

Bryan VanDeVen wrote:

> Is there a module for scheduling events in real time?  I have events
> that need to be repeated indefinitely, each at a given time period.  The
> periods are large (at least one minute) and precision requirements are
> not that great (within a few seconds).  Is anyone aware of code to do
> this?

I wrote a midi scheduler based on the priority queues described in
Guido's python book. My biggest problem was the latency - I tried
a few mechanisms, including tk's 'after' and a mixture of long and short
sleeps - the best was a tight loop polling for the next time event.

Have a look at the source and ignore the midi stuff (will only run under
SGI and Python 1.2-1.4 anyway)

http://anusf.anu.edu.au/~sjr/midiplayer.py