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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:

    time.sleep(t)

## Parameters:

Here is the detail of parameters:

- t: This is the number of seconds execution to be suspended.

## Example:

    #!/usr/bin/python
    import time

    print "Start : %s" % time.ctime()
    time.sleep( 5 )
    print "End : %s" % time.ctime()

This produces following result:

    Start : Tue Feb 17 10:19:18 2009
    End : Tue Feb 17 10:19:23 2009

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