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authorErik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>2016-11-22 10:25:23 +0000
committerErik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>2016-11-22 10:25:23 +0000
commitf9834a3d1a25d0a715718a53e10752399985e3aa (patch)
tree3d868eafb43d9646b15cd1aaee0f4093db802fd3 /synapse/util
parentMerge branch 'erikj/ldap3_auth' (diff)
parentBump changelog (diff)
downloadsynapse-f9834a3d1a25d0a715718a53e10752399985e3aa.tar.xz
Merge branch 'release-v0.18.4' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse v0.18.4
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-rw-r--r--synapse/util/__init__.py10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/util/__init__.py b/synapse/util/__init__.py
index 2b3f0bef3c..c05b9450be 100644
--- a/synapse/util/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/util/__init__.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class Clock(object):
     """A small utility that obtains current time-of-day so that time may be
     mocked during unit-tests.
 
-    TODO(paul): Also move the sleep() functionallity into it
+    TODO(paul): Also move the sleep() functionality into it
     """
 
     def time(self):
@@ -46,6 +46,14 @@ class Clock(object):
         return int(self.time() * 1000)
 
     def looping_call(self, f, msec):
+        """Call a function repeatedly.
+
+         Waits `msec` initially before calling `f` for the first time.
+
+        Args:
+            f(function): The function to call repeatedly.
+            msec(float): How long to wait between calls in milliseconds.
+        """
         l = task.LoopingCall(f)
         l.start(msec / 1000.0, now=False)
         return l