If your program doesn’t have a event loop already, use the sched module, which implements a general purpose event scheduler.
import sched, time
s = sched.scheduler(time.time, time.sleep)
def do_something(sc):
print("Doing stuff...")
# do your stuff
sc.enter(60, 1, do_something, (sc,))
s.enter(60, 1, do_something, (s,))
s.run()
If you’re already using an event loop library like asyncio
, trio
, tkinter
, PyQt5
, gobject
, kivy
, and many others – just schedule the task using your existing event loop library’s methods, instead.