Re: How can I waste time ?

From: Ben Finney (bignose-hates-spam_at_and-benfinney-does-too.id.au)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: 19 Feb 2004 14:18:06 +1050

On 18 Feb 2004 19:35:55 -0800, Richard Shea wrote:
> 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> 

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