sleep() is used to delay program execution. It pauses the execution for given number of seconds. It can take floating point numbers for more precise sleep time. The suspension time may vary. It is not accurate as it uses system clock and the accuracy depends on operating system. The system clock is an Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller or APIC). It works internally by keeping track of CPU cycles and raising Interrupt Requests (IRQs) at programmable intervals. It interrupts whatever code the processor is currently executing, save its state, and pass control to a piece of code in the operating system.
Python <https://mindmajix.com/python-training> calls select on Linux (and compatibles) and WaitForSingleObjectEx on Windows. Both of these are normally used for I/O and when called in a blocking way OS will put the process on hold until the data is available or the time period is expired. It will resume process once data is available or time period has expired. *time.sleep()* The sleep() function is defined in time module. There are two ways to include it in program import time .sleep(5) ## suspend execution for five seconds from time import sleep sleep(5) ## suspend execution for five seconds sleep() can take floating point numbers as argument for more precise sleep time. import time time.sleep(0.100) ## Wait for 100 milliseconds *Example 1: Simple countdown timer* import time seconds = 5 while seconds > 0: print(seconds) time.sleep(1) seconds = seconds - 1 output: 5 4 3 2 1 It will print the output with 1 second delay. *Example 2: Date and time print with 1-second interval* import time while True: print("DateTime " + time.strftime("%c")) time.sleep(1) ## delays for 1 seconds *output: * DateTime Tue Sep 5 08:40:18 2017 DateTime Tue Sep 5 08:40:19 2017 DateTime Tue Sep 5 08:40:20 2017 DateTime Tue Sep 5 08:40:21 2017 DateTime Tue Sep 5 08:40:22 2017 And continues until stop. *Example 3: Asking user input for wait time* import time def sleeper(): while True: # Get user input num = raw_input('How long to wait: ') # Try to convert it to a float try: num = float(num) except ValueError: print('Please enter in a number.n') continue # Run our time.sleep() command, # and show the before and after time print('Before: %s' % time.ctime()) time.sleep(num) print('After: %sn' % time.ctime()) try: sleeper() except KeyboardInterrupt: print('nnKeyboard exception received. Exiting.') exit() *output :* How long to wait: 5 Before: Tue Sep 5 08:47:56 2017 After: Tue Sep 5 08:48:01 2017 *How It Works**:* In Python time.sleep() method blocks thread. If the program is single threaded, then the process will be also blocked. The substantive part of the sleep operation is wrapped in a Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS and Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS block, allowing other threads to continue to execute while the current one sleeps. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Swagger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
