python Tornado websockets how to send message every X seconds?

Question

I am trying to cobble together a test which allows websockets clients to connect to a Tornado server and I want the Tornado server to send out a message to all clients every X s

Answer 1

Why don't you try write a scheduler inside it? :)

def schedule_func():
    #DO SOMETHING#

#milliseconds
interval_ms = 15
main_loop = tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance()
sched = tornado.ioloop.PeriodicCallback(schedule_func,interval_ms, io_loop = main_loop)
#start your period timer
sched.start()
#start your loop
main_loop.start()