How do I get my program to sleep for 50 milliseconds?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3774...

Accepted answer links:
[time.sleep()]: https://docs.python.org/library/time.htm...

Answer 3 links:
https://docs.python.org/library/time.htm...

Answer 4 links:
[reference]: http://docs.python.org/library/time.html...
[Unix time]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

from time import sleep
sleep(0.05)

Note that if you rely on sleep taking exactly 50 ms, you won't get that. It will just be about it.

Use time.sleep():

import time
time.sleep(50 / 1000)

You can also do it by using the Timer() function.

Code:

from threading import Timer

def hello():
  print("Hello")

t = Timer(0.05, hello)
t.start()  # After 0.05 seconds, "Hello" will be printed