Application of time.sleep()
There are many applications that sleep() is used for. Be its execution of the background thread which is repeated at regular intervals, this can be implemented with the help of sleep(). Another popular application is using sleep() to print the words letter by letter for a good user interface. The latter is represented in the code below.
Example 1: Creating Time Delay in the Python loop
Python3
import time # initializing string strn = "w3wiki" # printing w3wiki after delay # of each character for i in range ( 0 , len (strn)): print (strn[i], end = "") time.sleep( 2 ) |
Output:
w3wiki
Note: Visible effect of sleep() can be seen in the local editor.
Example 2: Creating Time Delay in Python List
Python3
# importing time package import time # creating a time delay of 5 seconds time.sleep( 5 ) # creating and Initializing a list myList = [ 'Jai' , 'Shree' , 'RAM' , 5 , 'August' , 2020 ] # the list will be displayed after the # delay of 5 seconds print (myList) |
Output:
After the delay of 5 seconds, we will get the output as:
['Jai', 'Shree', 'RAM', 5, 'August', 2020]
Example 3: Creating Time Delay in Python Tuple
Python3
# importing time package import time # creating a time delay of 4 seconds time.sleep( 4 ) # creating and Initializing a tuple mytuple = ( 'Anil Kumbl' , 'Sachin Tendulkar' , 'Sunil Gavaskar' , 'Rahul Dravid' , 'Mahendra Singh Dhoni' , 'Dennis Lillee' , 'Muttiah Muralitharan' , 'Shane Warne' ) # the tuple will be displayed after the delay of 4 seconds print (mytuple) |
Output:
After the delay of 4 seconds, we will get the output as:
('Anil Kumbl', 'Sachin Tendulkar', 'Sunil Gavaskar', 'Rahul Dravid', 'Mahendra Singh Dhoni', 'Dennis Lillee', 'Muttiah Muralitharan', 'Shane Warne')
Example 4: Time Delay in a List Comprehension
Python3
# importing time package import time # creating and Initializing a list cricketers = [ 'Anil Kumble' , 'Sachin Tendulkar' , 'Sunil Gavaskar' , 'Rahul Dravid' , 'Mahendra Singh Dhoni' , 'Dennis Lillee' , 'Muttiah Muralitharan' , 'Shane Warne' ] # time delay of 7 seconds is created # after every 7 seconds item of list gets displayed cricketers = [(time.sleep( 7 ), print (cric)) for cric in cricketers] |
Output:
After every 7 seconds, the items on the list will be displayed as:
Anil Kumble Sachin Tendulkar Sunil Gavaskar Rahul Dravid Mahendra Singh Dhoni Dennis Lillee Muttiah Muralitharan Shane Warne
Example 5: Creating Multiple Time Delays
Python3
# importing time package import time # creating and Initializing a list Languages = [ 'Java' , 'C++' , 'Python' , 'Javascript' , 'C#' , 'C' , 'Kotlin' ] # creating a time delay of 5 seconds time.sleep( 5 ) # the list will be displayed after the delay of 5 seconds print (Languages) for lan in Languages: # creating a time delay of 13 seconds time.sleep( 13 ) # After every 13 seconds an item of list will be displayed print (lan) |
Output:
After the delay of 5 seconds, the list will be displayed as:
['Java', 'C++', 'Python', 'Javascript', 'C#', 'C', 'Kotlin']
Then after every 13 seconds, the items on the list will be displayed as:
Java C++ Python Javascript C# C Kotlin
time.sleep() in Python
Python time sleep() function suspends execution for the given number of seconds.