Deferring a function call

I'm writing a simple simulator, and I want to schedule an action to occur at a later time. Basically, at some later point I want to call a function f(a, b, c). But the values of a, b and c are determined at the current time.

One way way to do this is to keep a list of entries of the form [[TIME, FN, ARGS]...] and at simulated time TIME do: apply(FN, ARGS)
Aside from the fact that apply is deprecated, it seems like there should be a cleaner (possibly more Pythonic) way to do this. Ideas?

-Tom

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