[Tutor] setting up a timer

alan.gauld@bt.com alan.gauld@bt.com
Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:56:23 +0100


> Then I discovered that signal.alarm is NOT available in Windows.  Mark
> Hammond's book (Python Programming on Win32) was no help.  

I usually just create a Windows timer and catch the timer event.
That gets slightly messy in a plain python program because you 
don't normally have a windows event loop!

Curious to see other suggestoions.

Alan G.