What's the difference between gevent.sleep and time.sleep?

Dave Angel davea at davea.name
Sun Jul 27 03:22:58 EDT 2014


Xiadong Zhu <mailto1587 at gmail.com> Wrote in message:
> Hi, I'm learning gevent, but I didn't found the difference with gevent.sleep and time.sleep, does anybody could give me a sample code to show their difference? Thanks!
> 

gevent is a cooperative analog to the threading module. When using
 it you would never use time.sleep.  So no example is
 needed.

time.sleep would suspend the entire process, blocking all greenlet
 threads.

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DaveA




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