Equivalent of setInterval in python

Question

I have recently posted a question about how to postpone execution of a function in Python (kind of equivalent to Javascript setTimeout) and it turns out to be a

Answer 1

Your solution looks fine to me.

There are several ways to communicate with threads. To order a thread to stop, you can use threading.Event(), which has a wait() method that you can use instead of time.sleep().

stop_event = threading.Event()
...
stop_event.wait(1.)
if stop_event.isSet():
    return
...

For your thread to exit when the program is terminated, set its daemon attribute to True before calling start(). This applies to Timer() objects as well because they subclass threading.Thread. See http://docs.python.org/library/threading.html#threading.Thread.daemon

Answer 2

Maybe a bit simpler is to use recursive calls to Timer:

from threading import Timer
import atexit

class Repeat(object):

    count = 0
    @staticmethod
    def repeat(rep, delay, func):
        "repeat func rep times with a delay given in seconds"

        if Repeat.count < rep:
            # call func, you might want to add args here
            func()
            Repeat.count += 1
            # setup a timer which calls repeat recursively
            # again, if you need args for func, you have to add them here
            timer = Timer(delay, Repeat.repeat, (rep, delay, func))
            # register timer.cancel to stop the timer when you exit the interpreter
            atexit.register(timer.cancel)
            timer.start()

def foo():
    print "bar"

Repeat.repeat(3,2,foo)

atexit allows to signal stopping with CTRL-C.

Answer 3

this class Interval

class ali:
    def __init__(self):
        self.sure = True;

    def aliv(self,func,san):
        print "ali naber";
        self.setInterVal(func, san);

    def setInterVal(self,func, san):

        # istenilen saniye veya dakika aralığında program calışır. 
        def func_Calistir():

            func(func,san);  #calışıcak fonksiyon.
        self.t = threading.Timer(san, func_Calistir)
        self.t.start()
        return self.t


a = ali();
a.setInterVal(a.aliv,5);

Answer 4

Maybe these are the easiest setInterval equivalent in python:

 import threading

 def set_interval(func, sec):
    def func_wrapper():
        set_interval(func, sec) 
        func()  
    t = threading.Timer(sec, func_wrapper)
    t.start()
    return t