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An example of how to repeteadly call a function in a thread
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| class Job(threading.Thread): | |
| def __init__(self, interval, execute, *args, **kwargs): | |
| ''' | |
| Start class with .start() | |
| :param interval: timedelta | |
| :param execute: a function | |
| :param args: list of args | |
| :param kwargs: dict of args | |
| ''' | |
| threading.Thread.__init__(self) | |
| self.daemon = False | |
| self.stopped = threading.Event() | |
| self.interval = interval | |
| self.execute = execute | |
| self.args = args | |
| self.kwargs = kwargs | |
| def stop(self): | |
| self.stopped.set() | |
| self.join() | |
| def run(self): | |
| while not self.stopped.wait(self.interval.total_seconds()): | |
| self.execute(*self.args, **self.kwargs) |
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