Run certain code every n seconds
Is there a way to, for example, print Hello World! every n seconds?
For example, the program would go through whatever code I had, then once it had been 5 seconds (with time.sleep()) it would execute that code. I would be using this to update a file though, not print Hello World.
For example:
startrepeat("print('Hello World')", .01) # Repeats print('Hello World') ever .01 seconds
for i in range(5):
print(i)
>> Hello World!
>> 0
>> 1
>> 2
>> Hello World!
>> 3
>> Hello World!
>> 4
Answer
import threading
def printit():
threading.Timer(5.0, printit).start()
print "Hello, World!"
printit()
# continue with the rest of your code
https://docs.python.org/3/library/threading.html#timer-objects