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On 28/02/2012 17:16, Eric Frederich wrote:
> If I do a time.sleep(0.001) right at the beginning of the run() method,
> then it completes fine.
> I was able to run it through a couple hundred times without problem.
> If I sleep for less time than that or not at all, it may or may not
> complete.
>
[snip]

To me that suggests that the OS works in units of 1 millisecond, so a
sleep of less than 0.001 seconds is rounded to 0 milliseconds.