CallLater

A convenience class for Timer, that calls the given callable object once after the given amount of milliseconds, passing any positional or keyword args. The return value of the callable is availbale after it has been run with the GetResult method.

If you don’t need to get the return value or restart the timer then there is no need to hold a reference to this object. It will hold a reference to itself while the timer is running (the timer has a reference to Notify) but the cycle will be broken when the timer completes, automatically cleaning up the CallLater object.

See also

CallAfter

Inheritance Diagram

Inheritance diagram for class CallLater

Methods Summary

__init__	A convenience class for Timer, that calls the given callable
GetInterval
GetResult	Returns the value of the callable.
HasRun	Returns whether or not the callable has run.
IsRunning
Notify	The timer has expired so call the callable.
SetArgs	(Re)set the args passed to the callable object. This is
Start	(Re)start the timer
Stop	Stop and destroy the timer.
__del__

Properties Summary

Interval	See GetInterval
Result	See GetResult

Class API

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class CallLater(object)

A convenience class for Timer, that calls the given callable object once after the given amount of milliseconds, passing any positional or keyword args. The return value of the callable is availbale after it has been run with the GetResult method.

If you don’t need to get the return value or restart the timer then there is no need to hold a reference to this object. It will hold a reference to itself while the timer is running (the timer has a reference to Notify) but the cycle will be broken when the timer completes, automatically cleaning up the CallLater object.

See also

CallAfter

Methods

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__init__(self, millis, callableObj, *args, **kwargs)

A convenience class for Timer, that calls the given callable object once after the given amount of milliseconds, passing any positional or keyword args. The return value of the callable is availbale after it has been run with the GetResult method.

Parameters:

• millis (int) – number of milli seconds
• callableObj (PyObject) – the callable object
• args – arguments to be passed to the callable object
• kw – keywords to be passed to the callable object

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GetInterval(self)

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GetResult(self)

Returns the value of the callable.

Return type:a Python object Returns:result from callable

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HasRun(self)

Returns whether or not the callable has run.

Return type:bool

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IsRunning(self)

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Notify(self)

The timer has expired so call the callable.

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SetArgs(self, *args, **kwargs)

(Re)set the args passed to the callable object. This is useful in conjunction with Restart if you want to schedule a new call to the same callable object but with different parameters.

Parameters:

• args – arguments to be passed to the callable object
• kw – keywords to be passed to the callable object

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Start(self, millis=None, *args, **kwargs)

(Re)start the timer

Parameters:

• millis (int) – number of milli seconds
• args – arguments to be passed to the callable object
• kw – keywords to be passed to the callable object

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Stop(self)

Stop and destroy the timer.

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__del__(self)

Properties

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Interval

See GetInterval

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Result

See GetResult