Sometimes, we want to repeat function every n seconds with Python threading.Timer.
In this article, we’ll look at how to repeat function every n seconds with Python threading.Timer.
How to repeat function every n seconds with Python threading.Timer?
To repeat function every n seconds with Python threading.Timer, we can create a Thread subclass to run the code that we want to repeat.
For instance, we write
class MyThread(Thread):
def __init__(self, event):
Thread.__init__(self)
self.stopped = event
def run(self):
while not self.stopped.wait(0.5):
print("my thread")
# ...
to create the MyThread class which is a subclass of the Thread class.
Then run method is run when the thread is started.
We run the repeated code with
while not self.stopped.wait(0.5):
print("my thread")
# ...
Then we write
stop_flag = Event()
thread = MyThread(stop_flag)
thread.start()
# ...
stop_flag.set()
to create the stop_flag with the Event class.
We create the thread with
thread = MyThread(stop_flag)
Then we start the thread with
thread.start()
And we stop the thread with
stop_flag.set()
Conclusion
To repeat function every n seconds with Python threading.Timer, we can create a Thread subclass to run the code that we want to repeat.
