Python threading.timer - repeat function every 'n' seconds

Question

I want to fire off a function every 0.5 seconds and be able to start and stop and reset the timer. I\'m not too knowledgeable of how Python threads work and am having diffic

Answer 1

This is an alternate implementation using function instead of class. Inspired by @Andrew Wilkins above.

Because wait is more accurate than sleep ( it takes function runtime into account ):

import threading

PING_ON = threading.Event()

def ping():
  while not PING_ON.wait(1):
    print("my thread %s" % str(threading.current_thread().ident))

t = threading.Thread(target=ping)
t.start()

sleep(5)
PING_ON.set()