On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 15:13, Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckha...@dominolaser.com> wrote: > Hi! > > This is a request for clarification for the thread "how to call a function for > evry 10 seconds" from the user mailinglist/newsgroup. > > > The gist is this: > 1. On Linux/Python 2.6, time.sleep(-1.0) raises an IOError. > 2. On MS Windows/Python 2.5 or 2.7 this sleeps forever. It seems that > converting this to a 32-bit integer for Sleep() causes an underflow.
> 3. Is the behaviour under MS Windows acceptable or a bug? On the Windows side, Sleep(-1) as "infinite" is correct and documented: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686298(v=vs.85).aspx -- Tim Lesher <tles...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
