[Tutor] Put delay in while loop

[Gus Tabares]

On Monday 23 August 2004 04:24 pm, Bernard Lebel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How (if possible at all) do you a "delay" in a while loop? Let say for
> example I have an ever-lasting program that uses a while loop, and that
> checks for a server connection (by check the validity of a path over that
> server). In this example I would want the while loop to perform the
> verification once every minute.
>
>
> Thanks
> Bernard
>
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You might want to take a look at the sleep routine for the time module

import time
time.sleep(seconds)


HTH,
Gus