How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds

Wed Jan 14 10:03:36 EST 2015

This is bit urgent and I all stuck form last few hours :(
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Ganesh Pal <ganesh1pal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Iam using Linux and Python 2.7 and playing with the threading.Timer module.
>> I had the below question on the same.
>> (a) How to I prevent the execution the "EXECUTED SLEEP" after 4
> seconds ? , current this is running in an infinite loop
>> node-1# cat file_01.py
>> import threading
> import time
> def printit():
> threading.Timer(2, printit).start()
> print "EXECUTED SLEEP"
> printit()
> print "hi"
> time.sleep(4)
> print "hi"
> time.sleep(5)
>> Output:
> node-1# python file_01.py
> EXECUTED SLEEP
> hi
> EXECUTED SLEEP
> EXECUTED SLEEP
> EXECUTED SLEEP
>>>> Regards,
> Ganesh