Timers是一个有名称的Thread子类,因此您可以为一个在之后创建的分配一个自定义名称,只需将一个值赋给它的name属性,这样Timer构造函数不接受允许这样做的参数并不重要。在
如果您经常这样做,您可以编写一个相对简单的实用程序函数,为您自动完成这项工作(或者派生出您自己的NamedTimer(_Timer)子类,它的代码行数大致相同):try:
from threading import _Timer
except ImportError:
from threading import Timer as _Timer # Python 3.3+
def named_timer(name, interval, function, *args, **kwargs):
"""Factory function to create named Timer objects.
Named timers call a function after a specified number of seconds:
t = named_timer('Name', 30.0, function)
t.start()
t.cancel() # stop the timer's action if it's still waiting
"""
timer = _Timer(interval, function, *args, **kwargs)
timer._name = name
return timer
if __name__ == '__main__':
def func():
print('func() called')
timer = named_timer('Fidgit', 3, func)
print('timer.name: {!r}'.format(timer.name)) # -> timer.name: 'Fidgit'
timer.run() # Causes "func() called" to be printed after a few seconds.