How to launch a function at regular time intervals ?

[Bartosz Wroblewski]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:09:29 -0700, David wrote:
>
> Hi all, I'm trying to launch a function at regular time intervals but
> cannot find the way to do it.
>

For what it's worth, here's how I do it:

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#!/usr/bin/env python
from time import sleep

interval = 25 #seconds

while not sleep(interval):
    f(spam, eggs, knight)

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You might want to put the sleep inside an *obviously* infinite loop. Note 
that this works best (most accurately) for longer periods. If you need to
account for the time spent in the actual f() calls, plug in a time.time() 
call where appropriate.

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