Blocking a thread for x seconds

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Fernando Rodredguez wrote:

> I have a class that descends from threading.Thread. One method should
> block
> the thread during x seconds and then call another method.  How can I do
> this?

time.sleep(x) [*]


* this comes witout any warranty about the slept time whatsoever under the
assumption that time.sleep is not run under a RTOS with guaranteed timings

Diez