Can I set up a timed callback without Tkinter or twisted orsomething?

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"hg" <hg at nospam.com> wrote:


> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to do the equivalent of the after thingy in tkinter - setting up in
> > effect a timed call back.
> >
> > My use case is as a "supervisory" timer - I want to set up an alarm, which I
> > want to cancel if the expected occurrence occurs - but its not a GUI app.
> >
> > My googling gets a lot of stuff pointing to optparse...
> >
> > Does the standard lib have anything like this?
> >
> > - Hendrik
> >
>
> http://python.active-venture.com/lib/timer-objects.html
>
 Thanks - will check it out - Hendrik