sleep function

[Jeff Bauer]

Arnaldo Riquelme wrote:
> Does python has a function similar to  sleep() in perl?
> If so what is it? How do I make a function to execute 
> every (5,15,10) minutes ?


>>> from time import sleep
>>> for t in range(3):       
...     sleep(300)
...     print 5*(t+1), "minutes have elapsed ..."
... 

5 minutes have elapsed ...
10 minutes have elapsed ...
15 minutes have elapsed ...

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Jeff Bauer
Rubicon Research