What is the best way to repeatedly execute a function every x seconds?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4745...

Question links:
[NSTimer]: http://web.archive.org/web/2009082301270...
[this question about a cron implemented in Python]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3733...
[sleep()]: http://docs.python.org/library/time.html...

Accepted answer links:
[sched]: http://docs.python.org/library/sched.htm...

Answer 4 links:
[Twisted]: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/
[Reactor Pattern]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactor_pat...

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