It's in time. import time time.sleep(1) Angus MacKay wrote: > is there anyway to sleep in a python program asside from: > import os > os.system("sleep 1") > > or > > import threading > threading._sleep(1) > > I mean it is part of unistd.h so you would think that it would > appear in os or posix or somewhere. > > cheers, Angus.