ioloop.py 文件源码

def remove_timeout(self, timeout):
        """Cancels a pending timeout.

        The argument is a handle as returned by add_timeout.
        """
        # Removing from a heap is complicated, so just leave the defunct
        # timeout object in the queue (see discussion in
        # http://docs.python.org/library/heapq.html).
        # If this turns out to be a problem, we could add a garbage
        # collection pass whenever there are too many dead timeouts.
        timeout.callback = None