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Python time sleep() Function


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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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