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On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:54:51 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following:

>That's silly. Zero is "up to" any positive value you want. Do you really
>intend to say that this would be an acceptable implementation of sleep()?
>
>def sleep(delay):
>    return
>
	I wouldn't, but only because that doesn't give up the processor

def sleep(delay):
	system.scheduler()		#Whatever one wants to call it...
	return

OTOH -- does at least relinquish the processor... Of course, it does not
meet the (implied) documentation of not returning until at least <delay>
time has passed. That then becomes a documentation flaw.

"""
sleep(delay)

Invokes the OS process scheduler to immediately transfer control to the
next ready task on the system.

The parameter <delay> is a place holder and has no effect; the function
returns immediately upon the process being made active by the OS scheduler.
"""

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