Time delay loop - better way?

Anthony Baxter anthonybaxter at gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 23:16:59 EDT 2004


On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:28:17 -0700, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
> > Q: Is there some way to gracefully suspend a python app for a second or
> >    so then resume? I could write the classic basic dumb
> >    loop-tenzillion-times delay, but that seems inelegant, and well, just
> >    wrong. By the way, I'm also using wxPython, if that helps any.
> 
> wxTimer
> 
> The wxPython demo and documentation are your friends.

Note, though, that wxTimer guarantees only 1Hz-1000Hz. On windows, you
get only about 40-50Hz. This makes it completely unsuitable for some tasks.




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