Timer callback function

[thejoker]

Dear reader,

I am trying to make sense of the micropython timer.callback() function, but I can't say I understand it very well.

My idea was to use the following code to call a function every 1 second:

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import pyb
import time


def tick():
    print(time.ticks_ms())


# Create timer which calls the function 'tick' every second
tim = pyb.Timer(1, freq=1)
tim.callback(tick)

However, I get the following error:

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>>> uncaught exception in Timer(1) interrupt handler
TypeError:

Does anyone know why this happens and what a possible solution is?
Many thanks in advance!

[thejoker]

I found the problem:

Note: Memory can’t be allocated during a callback (an interrupt) and so exceptions raised within a callback don’t give much information

[dhylands]

This page has quite a bit of information about writing interrupt handlers in MicroPython. In particular, to get more detailed information about exceptions, you should allocate an emergency exception buffer:
http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/p ... ion-buffer

[pythoncoder]

There is a bug in the code. If you read the timer docs you will find that the callback takes one argument, the timer object. The following works:

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import pyb
import time

def tick(_):  # Accept and discard the arg
    print(time.ticks_ms())

# Create timer which calls the function 'tick' every second
tim = pyb.Timer(1, freq=1)
tim.callback(tick)