How can I schedule a task to run every 10 seconds in Python?

[Haiyan]

Dear Experts:

I am writing one test program with Python which is running multiple threads in parallel. I hope to add another thread to display the test status every 10 seconds. Could you please tell me how I can schedule a task to run every 10 seconds in Python?

I defined one function return_status() and tried the Timer object of threading as follows, but it only run once after 10 seconds. I hope it can run multiple times and invoke every 10 seconds.

running_status = threading.Timer(10, self.return_status)    # return test status every 10 seconds
running_status.start()
 

Thank you very much in advance!

Regards,
Haiyan