[Twisted-Python] sleeping in inlineCallbacks

Matt Perry matt at unshift.net
Wed Oct 7 13:46:05 MDT 2009


reactor.callLater() is the best way to delay a certain function call.
sleep() will block the entire program from running, which you probably don't
want to do.


On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Paul Thomas
<spongelavapaul at googlemail.com>wrote:

>
> On 7 Oct 2009, at 20:30, Paul Thomas wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to do something like "yield sleep(10)" inside an
> > @inlineCallbacks method?
>
> I realise I can do this:
>
> def sleep(seconds):
>     d = defer.Deferred()
>     reactor.callLater(seconds, d.callback, seconds)
>     return d
>
> but I wondered if something like that is already in the libraries?
>
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