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Hi,

Is there some way to implement a timer in python? I want to open a
process and pipe a log out of it every 10 minutes. How can I do this? Thanks
Steve

Jul 18 '05 #1
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Steve wrote:
Hi,

Is there some way to implement a timer in python? I want to open a
process and pipe a log out of it every 10 minutes. How can I do this?
Thanks


Check time.sleep()

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Jul 18 '05 #2
"Steve" wrote:
Is there some way to implement a timer in python? I want to open a
process and pipe a log out of it every 10 minutes. How can I do this?

Thanks

I think the Timer class in the threading module sounds like exactly what you
want.
Jul 18 '05 #3

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