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Cobble
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Reputation: 122

How to make a constant loop that fires every second (without sleep or threading)?

I am creating a new website (online web game) which requires a constant loop on the backend which fires every second. When I was hosting on my computer I had done it using Threading.Timer(1, countTimer).start(), but when I've done my research now it seems like pythonanywhere doesn't support Threading.

I can't use Time.sleep since that freezes the entire program and other stuff needs to run in the same file.

The file where the loop is would obviously be a always on task on pythonanywhere.

So basically, how should I go about making a function trigger every second on my python backend, without also freezing the entire thing, and not using any threading? Thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 198

Answers (1)

Francesco Pegoraro
Francesco Pegoraro

Reputation: 808

I think you are looking for Scheduled tasks.

Follow the instructions at the link and schedule your script (containing a loop in your case) to run any time you want.

Upvotes: 2

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