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Python time sleep() Function
Description:
This function suspends execution for the given number of seconds. The argument may be a floating point number to indicate a more precise sleep time.
The actual suspension time may be less than that requested because any caught signal will terminate the sleep() following execution of that signal's catching routine.
Syntax:
Parameters:
Here is the detail of parameters:
Example:
#!/usr/bin/python
import time
print "Start : %s" % time.ctime()
time.sleep( 5 )
print "End : %s" % time.ctime()
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This produces following result:
Start : Tue Feb 17 10:19:18 2009
End : Tue Feb 17 10:19:23 2009
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