getting an error while using time sleep method in python

Question

There is a weblogic python script that takes a thread dump and sleeps for 10 or 20 seconds then takes another one after time.sleep(30), thread dumps are working fine, but the sleep method time.sleep(20) is not working.

Tried both import time and from time import sleep as well.

Getting this error below

AttributeError: java package 'weblogic.time' has no attribute 'sleep'

Answer 1

This one worked for me : https://community.oracle.com/thread/3560679

import time as systime
systime.sleep(10)

Answer 2

The problem here is that the weblogic.time package is shadowing the stdlib time module. So, when you try to import time, you're getting the former, not the latter.

(And weblogic.time has nothing in it but a subpackage or module weblogic.time.common, so you get an error trying to use its sleep function. But that's probably a good thing—better than it had a function named sleep that didn't do what you expected.)

If you were developing weblogic itself, I could explain how to not do that… but if you're just using weblogic, that's not going to help you.

If you're doing something like from weblogic import * earlier, the solution is simple: Just don't do that. Otherwise… it will be more complicated to work around.

But if all you need to do is block your interpreter thread for 20 seconds, you can do that with the Java Thread.sleep(20000). See this tutorial, but really, you don't need to know much more than that the Java method takes integer milliseconds instead of float seconds. And then you don't need time.