Inducing time delays in python using sleep function

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Using the sleep function in time module, we can make the code execution delayed by a desired time interval

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Function Usage

First import the time module
To induce a delay of say 5 seconds in your code, just call time.delay(5)

Example

import time
print("Hello ")
time.sleep(2)
print("World!")
# this prints 'Hello ' first waits 2 seconds and then prints 'World!'

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Online Interpreter

Although we recommend to practice the above examples in Visual Studio Code, you can run these examples online at https://pynative.com/online-python-code-editor-to-execute-python-code/

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