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Initiating a Timer-Interrupted Thread

import threading import os def clean_queue (qPath):     jobList = os.listdir(qPath)     for j in jobList:         delPath = "%s/%s" % (qPath, j)         os.remove(delPath)         print "Removing " + delPath qPath = "/print/queue01" waitTime = 600 #10 minutes #Create timer thread wakeCall = threading.Timer(waitTime, clean_queue, (qPath ,)) #Start timer thread wakeCall.start()