Timer runs only once.
siva gnanam
sivagnanam.student at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 09:58:39 EST 2016
On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 7:35:46 PM UTC+5:30, siva gnanam wrote:
> The following program print hello world only once instead it has to print the string for every 5 seconds.
>
> from threading import Timer;
>
> class TestTimer:
>
> def __init__(self):
> self.t1 = Timer(5.0, self.foo);
>
> def startTimer(self):
> self.t1.start();
>
> def foo(self):
> print("Hello, World!!!");
>
> timer = TestTimer();
> timer.startTimer();
>
>
> (program - 1)
>
> But the following program prints the string for every 5 seconds.
>
> def foo():
> print("World");
> Timer(5.0, foo).start();
>
> foo();
>
> (program - 2)
>
> Why (program - 1) not printing the string for every 5 seconds ? And how to make the (program - 1) to print the string for every 5 seconds continuously.
The use case :
Create a class which contains t1 as object variable. Assign a timer object to t1. Then make the timer running. So we can check the timer status in the future. Is it possible ?
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