Behaviour of time.sleep with negative arg

Colin Brown cbrown at metservice.com
Sun Mar 14 17:38:07 EST 2004


"Jeff Epler" <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.10.1079299930.682.python-list at python.org...
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:43:51AM +1300, Colin Brown wrote:
> > "Jeff Epler" <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote in message
> > news:mailman.15.1079236344.745.python-list at python.org...
> +       The behavior when secs is less than zero is undefined.  In
particular,
> +       a future version of Python may interpret 'time.sleep(-1); other
code'
> +       to cause 'other code' to execute beginning one second before the
call
> +       to time.sleep.

I do not think this is taking it far enough, why not support a complex
number argument, you should be able to do something interesting with that!

Thanks
Colin





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