from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop def defer(mcallable, *args, **kwargs): """ Defer a function for next loop iteration""" return IOLoop.current().spawn_callback(mcallable, *args, **kwargs) def delay(my_delay, mcallable, *args, **kwargs): """ Delay function call by time specified in delay""" return IOLoop.current().call_later(my_delay, mcallable, *args, **kwargs)