Periodically execute function in thread in real time, every N seconds [duplicate]

Answer 1

I did a bit different approach with one Thread, looping in a while loop. For me the advantages are:

• Only one Thread, the other solutions mentioned here starting and stopping threads for every interval

• More control for the Interval, you are able to stop the IntervalTimer with .stop() method

Code:

from threading import Thread, Event

# StoppableThread is from user Dolphin, from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5849484/how-to-exit-a-multithreaded-program
class StoppableThread(Thread):  

    def __init__(self):
        Thread.__init__(self)
        self.stop_event = Event()        

    def stop(self):
        if self.isAlive() == True:
            # set event to signal thread to terminate
            self.stop_event.set()
            # block calling thread until thread really has terminated
            self.join()

class IntervalTimer(StoppableThread):

    def __init__(self, interval, worker_func):
        super().__init__()
        self._interval = interval
        self._worker_func = worker_func

    def run(self):
        while not self.stop_event.is_set():
            self._worker_func()
            sleep(self._interval)

Usage:

def hw():
    print("Hello World")

interval = IntervalTimer(1,hw)
interval.start()

sleep(10)

interval.stop()