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Comment on A Python repeatable threading.Timer class by acadavid

acadavid — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 07:39:33 +0000

Hey Thank you! Very useful code! Works pretty good with Python 3.1

Comment on A Python repeatable threading.Timer class by Siva

Siva — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:24:04 +0000

Great post! Many Thanks.. i was looking for a repeater class.
One question though:
will this work?

r = RepeatTimer(120.0,threading.Thread(target=self.PingNow).start())
r.start()

Thanks!

Comment on Template Engine by gfoster

gfoster — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:19:54 +0000

I’ve updated page to show that it’s under the 3-clause BSD license. Also noticed that they link I had to the source code was wrong. I have somewhat abandoned this project, but please feel free to fork on BitBucket and submit patches. Having another contributor would help spur my desire to work on it again =)

Comment on Template Engine by C. Bess

C. Bess — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:06:57 +0000

Hey found your template engine TKTemplate. What is the license for it, BSD?

Comment on A Python repeatable threading.Timer class by simon

simon — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:32:54 +0000

Wow, thank you so much. This is exactly what I needed for my gps/nmea logger. I’m not a programmer and it took me all day just to get those 15 lines working. I thought it would take me another two to get threading sorted.

Thanks again

Comment on A Python repeatable threading.Timer class by ctabuyo

ctabuyo — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:31:25 +0000

Hi, I have used the code with python 2.5 and it works ok (with the change of IsSet) but when I generate an executable with pyexe, and I execute the application I get an error like this:
Unhandled exception in thread started by
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “threading.pyc”, line 462, in __bootstrap
File “threading.pyc”, line 527, in __bootstrap_inner
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘acquire’

Can anybody help me?

Comment on A Python repeatable threading.Timer class by gfoster

gfoster — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:10:23 +0000

Based upon the error and the snippet of code (without seeing more of it) I’d have to guess that sinceIDReply is a module and not a function or object (the object must implement the __call__ method for it to be callable)

Comment on A Python repeatable threading.Timer class by gfoster

gfoster — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:06:43 +0000

No, like all python threads once it has been stopped it is no longer valid and can’t be restarted. You could of course add something into the run method that would check a “paused” boolean value, which, if true, could then cause the thread to sleep for a certain period of time

Comment on A Python repeatable threading.Timer class by Yeison

Yeison — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:51:54 +0000

I keep getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “MentionPoll.py”, line 51, in
initTwitterPolling()
File “MentionPoll.py”, line 47, in initTwitterPolling
r = RepeatTimer(10.0, sinceIDReply, args=since_id)
TypeError: ‘module’ object is not callable

Any ideas what it could be?

Comment on A Python repeatable threading.Timer class by pball

pball — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:40:50 +0000

This is exactly what I need for my wallpaper script, except I’d like to be able to start and stop it. I saw in your last post you you can use r.cancel() to stop it, but you can’t just restart with r.start() since it gives the error “RuntimeError: thread already started”.

Is there a simple way to restart the timer after it’s been stopped?