Glyph,
In general, please reply on this list inline, with quoting and trimming, > like so: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Inline_replying > > This might seem like a minor thing, but it really helps those of us who > have to follow long discussions and many mailing lists. > Sorry, just being lazy... I have been using Twisted for years but only recently began to use > inlineCallbacks (couldn't give up Python 2.4 support until recently). This > simple asynch. sleep function is fantastic. Just today I used to it with > inlineCallbacks to dramatically clean up some complex deferred logic. > > > Which asynch sleep function? > > This one posted by Paul: def sleep(seconds): d = defer.Deferred() reactor.callLater(seconds, d.callback, seconds) return d I hope you're not talking about this stuff, quoted in your message: > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Bennetts <and...@bemusement.org>wrote: > >> > What about Deferred.setTimeout? >> > > Please note spiv's reply: > > Deferred.setTimeout is a poor API and is deprecated (despite what the >> automatically generated API docs think). >> > and his recommendation: > > So please, don't use setTimeout, and definitely do not recommend it to >> others! >> > Definitely not - I did see this warning. > I hope that, instead, you're talking about the deferLater function that was > introduced in Twisted 8.0? > > > http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/8.2.0/api/twisted.internet.task.html#deferLater > > This will act like an async 'sleep' if its result is yielded from an > @inlineCallbacks function. > > I looked at deferLater, but am not using it right now. The sleep function I am using is basically the same as this - in my case "sleep" turned out to be a little simpler because I don't have to create and pass the clock around. But I will probably use deferLater for this same purpose in the future as well. Cheers, Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > >
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