Deferring a function call

[TomF]

Thanks for the ideas, everyone.

functools.partial and lambda expressions seem like a more pythonic way 
of doing what I want.  I don't know whether they're actually more 
efficient or better, but at least they eliminate the need to carry args 
around separately.

I'd forgotten Python has a sched module in its standard library.  It 
may be overkill for what I want to do but I'll take a look.

-Tom