[Python-Dev] time.sleep(-1) behaviour

Tim Lesher tlesher at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 15:23:17 CEST 2011


On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 08:46, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> For Sleep, yes, but the time.sleep() docs [1] are completely silent on
> the behaviour of negative sleep values at the Python level. Question 3
> isn't "Is there something wrong with Sleep()?", it is "Is there
> something wrong with the way time.sleep() *uses* Sleep()?"

That makes sense. Better to be consistent within the time API--I know
the different semantics of time.clock() have confused people around
here.

-- 
Tim Lesher <tlesher at gmail.com>


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