How can I waste time ?
Ken Godee
ken at perfect-image.com
Wed Feb 18 22:55:27 EST 2004
Richard Shea wrote:
> I'm sure this is a very simple question but I can't find an answer in
> the archives.
>
> 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).
>
> Oh yes one other thing - I could write a loop and keep checking the
> sytem clock but I would prefer for the process to just get out of the
> way to allow others things access to the CPU.
>
> As I say I'm sure it's dead simple but how ?
>
> thanks
>
> richard shea.
import time
time.sleep(secs)
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