How can I waste time ?

[Chris Herborth]

Richard Shea wrote:

> I'm sure this is a very simple question but I can't find an answer in
> the archives.

Try the Python Library Reference? :-)

> I want my script to pause for a pre-determined number of seconds. How
> do you do that ? I've found 'pause()' although it sounds awfully deep
> for what I want and what's more it doesn't work on W32 (I'm developing
> on W32 but will run on *nix).

import time
...
time.sleep( number_of_seconds )

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