PYTHON usleep

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Python replacement for PHP's usleep [ edit | history ]

Python's time.sleep() accepts floating-point numbers:

import time
time.sleep(micro_seconds / 1000000.0)

PHP usleep

PHP original manual for usleep [ show | php.net ]

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

usleep — Delay execution in microseconds

void usleep ( int $micro_seconds )

Delays program execution for the given number of micro seconds.

micro_seconds: Halt time in micro seconds. A micro second is one millionth of a second.

No value is returned.

Version	Description
5.0.0	This function now works on Windows systems.

Example #1 usleep() example


<?php

// Current time
echo date('h:i:s') . "\n";

// wait for 2 seconds
usleep(2000000);

// back!
echo date('h:i:s') . "\n";

?>

The above example will output:

11:13:28
11:13:30