Behaviour of time.sleep with negative arg

Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Sun Mar 14 18:33:46 EST 2004


Colin Brown wrote:

> "Jeff Epler" <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote in message
> news:mailman.15.1079236344.745.python-list at python.org...
> ... time.sleep() should perform the same on all platforms but would
 > rather the sleep(0) for negative args because ...
Surely not __all__ platforms.  Certainly the BDFL's machine needs full
access to time machine controls.  I can see restricting the use of
negative arguments to authorized members of the PSU (if it actually
existed)....

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-Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org



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