{"id":6968,"date":"2020-11-20T17:12:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T11:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/?p=6968"},"modified":"2020-11-30T13:26:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T07:56:46","slug":"python-time-sleep-examples-to-add-delay-to-your-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/python-time-sleep-examples-to-add-delay-to-your-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Python time sleep: Examples to add DELAY to your code"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sometimes you need to add delay to your specific code. Python <\/a>has a built-in Sleep Function for such functionality. The sleep() function is part of the time module. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using sleep() function in Python<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s take a look at how to use the sleep functions in Python. We will use the current time to check the time difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

import time
t = time.localtime()
current_time = time.strftime(\"%H:%M:%S\", t)
print(current_time)
print(\"I am here\")
time.sleep(5)
print(\"I had to wait 5 seconds\")
t = time.localtime()
current_time = time.strftime(\"%H:%M:%S\", t)
print(current_time)<\/code><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The following is the output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Python<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Delay function execution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Use the time.sleep function in the user-defined function to delay the execution of the python function<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

import time
print('Code Execution Started')
def display():
time.sleep(5)
print('I am in function')
   
print('Function Execution Delayed')
display()<\/code><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"\"]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding delay using Event().wait <\/strong>function<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the threading library there is a function called event.wait() that can be used to add delay in the code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

from threading import Event

print('Code Execution Started')
def display():
print('I am in the function')
Event().wait(5)
display()<\/code><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Using Timer for delay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We can also use timer function to add delay to code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

from threading import Timer
print('Code Execution Started')
def display():
print('I am in the function')
t = Timer(5, display)
t.start()<\/code><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Python<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you need to add delay to your specific code. Python has a built-in Sleep Function for such functionality. The sleep() function is part of the time module.  Using sleep() function in Python Let\u2019s take a look at how to use the sleep functions in Python. We will use the current time to check the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-python-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}