Python: sleep command - simply explained

The sleep command in Python is extremely practical. It causes a program to wait a short time before executing further commands. Here we explain how to use the sleep command exactly.

Python: Use sleep command

You can easily add the sleep command to your program code:

1. Add the line "from time import sleep" (without quotes) to the beginning of your code so that you can use the sleep function later.
2. Now you can add the "sleep (1)" command anywhere in the code.
3. In brackets you have to write the time in seconds that the program should wait.
4. In this case, the program waits exactly one second.

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