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How do you wait in python?

+3 votes
asked Sep 1, 2020 by Jacob King (150 points)
I just want to pause the program for 3 seconds. I looked it up and a bunch of websites said to use "time.sleep(secs)". (I typed in 3 in the parenthesis of course) But this does not work when I type it in.

2 Answers

0 votes
answered Sep 6, 2020 by LiOS (6,420 points)
In Python, you will need to import a library that contains a sleep (or similar name) function.

The most basic library that contains a sleep function is time but there are lots of others.

The below code sleeps for 3 seconds.

import time

print ("Start : %s" % time.ctime())
time.sleep( 3 )
print ("End : %s" % time.ctime())
commented Mar 21, 2023 by Evan Jones (120 points)
time is not idenafied
+1 vote
answered Jul 17, 2022 by Brendan (160 points)

In python do this:

import time
time.sleep(amount of seconds)
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