How can I waste time ?

Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Fri Feb 20 15:47:54 EST 2004


Paul Rubin wrote:

> richardshea at fastmail.fm (Richard Shea) writes:
> 
>>I want my script to pause for a pre-determined number of seconds. How
>>do you do that ?
> 
> 
> import time
> time.sleep(3)  # sleep 3 seconds
Or, if you like,

import math, time

time.sleep(math.pi) # For a bit more than 3 seconds.

The point of this post is simply to make sure people realize they can
use floating point for partial seconds (but I don't know about imaginary
time).

-- 
-Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org



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