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Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds?

From Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds?
Date 2014-06-18 13:30 +0300
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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crow <wentlv@gmail.com>:

> I'm writing some scripts with python, and I found sometimes, when I
> try to use time.sleep(1) to sleep 1 sec, it would actually sleep for 9
> secs or even longer.
>
> [...]
>
> So, my question: under what kind of condition, time.sleep would
> suspend longer time than expected?

That could happen if your computer were extremely busy. Otherwise, I'd
say you are mistaken in your analysis, or you are running a broken
virtual machine.


Marko

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Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? crow <wentlv@gmail.com> - 2014-06-18 02:52 -0700
  Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-18 13:30 +0300
  Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-18 20:34 +1000
    Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? crow <wentlv@gmail.com> - 2014-06-18 08:24 -0700
      Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-19 09:38 +1000
        Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? crow <wentlv@gmail.com> - 2014-06-18 18:41 -0700
          Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-19 13:58 +1000
        Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-06-19 09:18 +0200
          Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-19 17:42 +1000
            Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-19 12:20 +0300
            Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-06-19 19:17 +0200
              Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-20 08:57 +1000
          Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-06-19 22:33 -0400
          Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-20 12:54 +1000

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