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What does time.sleep(1) do?
Short answer. It waits one second.
How do you time code?
Read perf_counter before and after, and subtract.
Remember
| time.sleep(1): wait 1 second |
| perf_counter(): a stopwatch |
Can a program wait, and time itself? Yes, with the time module. Sleep pauses for some seconds. Perf counter is a stopwatch. End minus start is at least half a second, so True. Sleep of one waits a second. Perf counter times code.
This clip is from the full lesson: Working with Dates and Times: datetime and time — 8 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
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