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I want to know how to call a function after a certain time. I have tried time.sleep() but this halts the whole script. I want the script to carry on, but after ???secs call a function and run the other script at the same time
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sleep() function. The standard way to add a time delay in Python is by calling the sleep() function from the time module. It works by suspending the execution of the calling thread for the specified number of seconds, which may be a floating-point value.
If you've got a Python program and you want to make it wait, you can use a simple function like this one: time. sleep(x) where x is the number of seconds that you want your program to wait.
Use time. This will sleep for half of a second.
Have a look at threading.Timer. It runs your function in a new thread.
from threading import Timer def hello(): print "hello, world" t = Timer(30.0, hello) t.start() # after 30 seconds, "hello, world" will be printed If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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