How to use a timer in Python?

[Nico Grubert]

Hi Sybren and Wolfram,

thank you very much for the time.sleep() tip.
My program reads like this now.

import os
import time
WINDOWS_SHARE = 'C:\\Temp'
while 'transfer.lock' in os.listdir( WINDOWS_SHARE ):
     print "Busy, please wait..."
     time.sleep(10)

f = open(WINDOWS_SHARE + '/myfile', 'w')
f.write("test 123")
f.close()
print "Done!"


Nico