How can I waste time ?

[Ben Finney]

I want my script to pause for a pre-determined number of seconds. How
do you do that ?

What you want is to send your application to sleep for a specified time.

<http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-time.html#l2h-1763>

 

[Richard Shea]

I'm sure this is a very simple question but I can't find an answer in
the archives.

I want my script to pause for a pre-determined number of seconds. How
do you do that ? I've found 'pause()' although it sounds awfully deep
for what I want and what's more it doesn't work on W32 (I'm developing
on W32 but will run on *nix).

Oh yes one other thing - I could write a loop and keep checking the
sytem clock but I would prefer for the process to just get out of the
way to allow others things access to the CPU.

As I say I'm sure it's dead simple but how ?

thanks

richard shea.

 

[Ken Godee]

I'm sure this is a very simple question but I can't find an answer in
the archives.

I want my script to pause for a pre-determined number of seconds. How
do you do that ? I've found 'pause()' although it sounds awfully deep
for what I want and what's more it doesn't work on W32 (I'm developing
on W32 but will run on *nix).

Oh yes one other thing - I could write a loop and keep checking the
sytem clock but I would prefer for the process to just get out of the
way to allow others things access to the CPU.

As I say I'm sure it's dead simple but how ?

thanks

richard shea.

import time
time.sleep(secs)

 

[Paul Rubin]

I want my script to pause for a pre-determined number of seconds. How
do you do that ?

import time
time.sleep(3) # sleep 3 seconds

 

[Richard Shea]

thanks very much to all of you - just what's needed !

thanks again

richard shea.

 

[Chris Herborth]

I'm sure this is a very simple question but I can't find an answer in
the archives.

Try the Python Library Reference?

I want my script to pause for a pre-determined number of seconds. How
do you do that ? I've found 'pause()' although it sounds awfully deep
for what I want and what's more it doesn't work on W32 (I'm developing
on W32 but will run on *nix).

import time
....
time.sleep( number_of_seconds )

 

[Scott David Daniels]

import time
time.sleep(3) # sleep 3 seconds

Or, if you like,

import math, time

time.sleep(math.pi) # For a bit more than 3 seconds.

The point of this post is simply to make sure people realize they can
use floating point for partial seconds (but I don't know about imaginary
time).