threading :: _Timer :: Class _Timer
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Class _Timer

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object --+        
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  _Verbose --+    
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        Thread --+
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                _Timer

Call a function after a specified number of seconds:

t = Timer(30.0, f, args=[], kwargs={}) t.start() t.cancel() # stop the timer's action if it's still waiting

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__init__(self, interval, function, args=[], kwargs={})
This constructor should always be called with keyword arguments.
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cancel(self)
Stop the timer if it hasn't finished yet
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run(self)
Method representing the thread's activity.
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Inherited from Thread: __repr__, getName, isAlive, isDaemon, is_alive, join, setDaemon, setName, start

Inherited from Thread (private): _reset_internal_locks, _set_daemon, _set_ident

Inherited from _Verbose (private): _note

Inherited from object: __delattr__, __format__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __new__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __setattr__, __sizeof__, __str__, __subclasshook__

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Inherited from Thread: daemon, ident, name

Inherited from Thread (private): _block

Inherited from object: __class__

Method Details [hide private]

__init__(self, interval, function, args=[], kwargs={})
(Constructor)

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This constructor should always be called with keyword arguments. Arguments are:

*group* should be None; reserved for future extension when a ThreadGroup class is implemented.

*target* is the callable object to be invoked by the run() method. Defaults to None, meaning nothing is called.

*name* is the thread name. By default, a unique name is constructed of the form "Thread-N" where N is a small decimal number.

*args* is the argument tuple for the target invocation. Defaults to ().

*kwargs* is a dictionary of keyword arguments for the target invocation. Defaults to {}.

If a subclass overrides the constructor, it must make sure to invoke the base class constructor (Thread.__init__()) before doing anything else to the thread.

Overrides: object.__init__
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run(self)

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Method representing the thread's activity.

You may override this method in a subclass. The standard run() method invokes the callable object passed to the object's constructor as the target argument, if any, with sequential and keyword arguments taken from the args and kwargs arguments, respectively.

Overrides: Thread.run
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