how to call a function for evry 10 secs

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> And that was a direct cut&paste from a command window; showing it
> had slept for some 90 seconds before I killed it.

Interesting. Just tried a 2.7.2 on a 32-bit MS Windows with following 
results:

1. sleep(5 - 2**32) sleeps for a few seconds
2. sleep(-1) sleeps much longer

So this seems to confirm that it's a 32-bit underflow while preparing the 
argument for win32's Sleep() function.

That said, an "IOError" is a bit better but still leaves room for 
improvement. I'll take this to the developers mailinglist and see if they 
consider the behaviour a bug. At the very least the docs are bad, I would 
say.


Cheers!

Uli


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