Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds?

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> Most any* console script runs fine** in Idle once you load it into the
> editor and press F5. Prompts and prints go the shell window (default blue on
> white) and input comes from the same (default black on white).

I figured it'd be easy, just couldn't say for sure. (To me, IDLE is
primarily an interactive interpreter, rather than an editor / script
runner.) Thanks for confirming.

ChrisA