This is a detailed tutorial of the Python sleep() Method. Learn to suspend the execution of a given Python program or code for a given number of seconds.
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Python time sleep()
The method sleep() of the Python time module is used to suspend the execution of a given Python program for the desired number of seconds. It’s a kind of function to pause your Python code execution for some time.
Syntax
Given below is the syntax for the sleep() method.
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time.sleep(seconds)
sleep() Parameters
This method only takes a single argument and that is the time in seconds. This is a floating-point number value. You can simply provide the seconds argument as an integer value to just specify the timings upto the precision of seconds. But if you want the execution suspension timings to be more precise, you can use floating-point numbers.
For example, the valid values of this argument are 1, 2, 3.5, 4.965, etc.
sleep() Return Value
It does not return any value as it simply suspends the program execution for a particular period of time
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