else clauses in while and for loops

Fredrik Lundh effbot at telia.com
Mon Mar 27 17:11:39 EST 2000


Ralph Corderoy <ralph at inputplus.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I don't think that is a real need.

so?  do you suggest that we should remove it, and
force people to rewrite their perfectly working pro-
grams, just to make you happy?

or maybe we could use all that energy to work on
something more important?

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But sleep takes seconds, not micro... Blaat, i feel dumb now.  0.000001 would be one micro second... So i'll just do it via time.time(), then do the little bit of math, then call time.sleep(stall_time).  Simple enough.. Thanx :)

JD

On Sat, 25 March 2000, "Gordon McMillan" wrote:

> 
> Falknor wrote:
>  
> > The equiv to the gettimeofday is time.time().. that's no prob.  Prob is, it only
> > returns seconds.. not micro seconds.  and the differences in 
> > the C select and the Python one throw me for a little loop.. 
> > Not sure how i could do the same thing with the 
> > select.select() as is done there :)
> 
> time.time returns a float number of seconds. time.sleep takes 
> a float, and for most platforms is implemented in terms of 
> select.
> 
> 
> 
> - Gordon
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