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

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Thu Jun 30 21:21:44 CEST 2011


On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:13:46 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt at dominolaser.com> wrote:
> 1. Is the IOError somehow explainable?
> 2. Is the IOError acceptable or a bug?
> 3. Is the behaviour under MS Windows acceptable or a bug?
> 4. Since time.sleep() is documented to possibly sleep a bit longer than 
> specified, someone suggested that the overall sleep time could also be 
> truncated to a minimum of zero, i.e. treating negative values as zero.

Please file a bug report at bugs.python.org.

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