How to use a timer in Python?

[Sybren Stuvel]

Nico Grubert enlightened us with:
> How can I use a timer that waits e.g. 10 seconds if 'transfer.lock'
> is present and then checks again if 'transfer.lock' is still there?

Make a while loop in which you sleep. Or use the threading module if
you want to go multi-threading.

Sybren
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