Method call_later

scripts/tornado_source_code/tornado/ioloop.py:589–602

Runs the ``callback`` after ``delay`` seconds have passed. Returns an opaque handle that may be passed to `remove_timeout` to cancel. Note that unlike the `asyncio` method of the same name, the returned object does not have a ``cancel()`` method. See `add_timeout`

(
        self, delay: float, callback: Callable[..., None], *args: Any, **kwargs: Any
    )

            raise TypeError("Unsupported deadline %r" % deadline)

    def call_later(
        self, delay: float, callback: Callable[..., None], *args: Any, **kwargs: Any
    ) -> object:
        """Runs the ``callback`` after ``delay`` seconds have passed.

        Returns an opaque handle that may be passed to `remove_timeout`
        to cancel.  Note that unlike the `asyncio` method of the same
        name, the returned object does not have a ``cancel()`` method.

        See `add_timeout` for comments on thread-safety and subclassing.

        .. versionadded:: 4.0
        """
        return self.call_at(self.time() + delay, callback, *args, **kwargs)

    def call_at(
        self, when: float, callback: Callable[..., None], *args: Any, **kwargs: Any