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#23251: note that time.sleep affects the current thread only. This is parallel to the language used in the unix man page. [#23251]

R David Murray rdmurray@bitdance.com
date	Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:48:26 -0500
parents	c2bba3c9424b
children	5db28a3199b2
files	Doc/library/time.rst
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--- a/Doc/library/time.rst +++ b/Doc/library/time.rst @@ -222,7 +222,8 @@ The module defines the following functio .. function:: sleep(secs)

Suspend execution of the current thread for the given number of seconds.
The argument may be a floating point number to indicate a more precise sleep time. The actual suspension time may be less than that requested because any caught signal will terminate the :func:sleep following execution of that signal's catching