The attraction to me if the simplicity of use and the lower overheads compared to using a threaded component to send timing signalling.
With the understanding of blocking the whole Python process (hence the scheduler) by not using a thread for the timer.
It doesn't block the scheduler. It uses the python Timer class, which uses a thread. When the timer times-out, the component is re-awoken, if paused.
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