[Zope] ClockServer 0.1 released

[Florent Guillaume]

Chris McDonough  <chrism at plope.com> wrote:
> I was creeped out by Zope scheduling products that started a separate
> thread to call methods at scheduled intervals and I got tired of setting
> up cron+wget to call Zope methods via HTTP, thus:
>  
> http://plope.com/software/ClockServer
> 
> It works by posing as a medusa server, and injects things that look like
> http requests into the publisher every so often.

Very nice.

I'm confused about the need for an external module for timeslice.
What's wrong with:

def timeslice(period, when=0):
    return when - (when % period)

Florent

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