Protecting against callbacks queuing up?

[Esben von Buchwald]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:32:23 +0200, Esben von Buchwald
> <find.mig at paa.google> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
> 
>> I'm new to python, what is an after function and an after call? Couldn't 
>> find excact answer on google...? Do you have a link to some docs?
> 
> 	They would be particular to whatever GUI/event library is in use.
> They aren't part of Python itself.

This is how the accelerometer is accessed
http://pys60.garage.maemo.org/doc/s60/node59.html

I found this called "after"...
http://pys60.garage.maemo.org/doc/s60/node12.html

would that be usable?

If so, how?