I'll just get to the code to show you, I'm trying to stop my while loop when my timer is over. Is there a way to do that?
from threading import Timer
def run(timeout=30, runs):
timer(timeout)
while runs > 0 or over():
#Do something
print "start looping"
def timer(time):
t = Timer(time, over)
print "timer started"
t.start()
def over():
print "returned false"
return False
As you can see, I'm trying to use the function over() to stop my while loop. Currently, when my time stop, over is returned as false, but it doesn't affect my while loop. I must be doing something wrong.
So what Timer object allows me to do is to pass a function param so that when the timer is over, it calls that function, over(). As over() returns False, it doesn't directly affect the while loop in real time. Will I need a callback to implicitly force the while to be false or is my method of stopping is completly faulty and will not work.
解决方案
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When your timer expires, you need to change the state so that when over is invoked, it will return True. Right now, I keep that in global state for simplicity. You will want to change this at some point.
Also, you had a logic error in your while loop condition. We need to make sure it still has runs and is not over.
#!/usr/bin/env python
from threading import Timer
globalIsOver = False
def run(runs, timeout=30):
timer(timeout)
while runs > 0 and not over():
#Do something
print "start looping"
print 'Exited run function.'
def timer(time):
t = Timer(time, setOver)
print "timer started"
t.start()
def setOver():
global globalIsOver
print '\nSetting globalIsOver = True'
globalIsOver = True
def over():
global globalIsOver
print 'returned = ' + str(globalIsOver)
return globalIsOver
run(100000000, timeout=2)
This returns the following after the 2 seconds have expired:
...
start looping
returned = False
start looping
returned = False
start looping
returned = False
Setting globalIsOver = True
start looping
returned = True
Exited run function.