pause 0.3

Description:

pause 0.3

Suspend the execution of your program for a given amount of time. This works similarly to time.sleep, but uses your computers timestamp to track time, versus a counter.
For example, traditionally using time.sleep(3600), will pause the program for 60 minutes. If your computer goes into standby mode during minute one, and wakes up several hours later, your program will continue to be paused for 59 minutes.
On the other hand, with pause.seconds(3600), if your computer goes into standby mode for several hours, the program will continue immediately after the machine wakes back up since the minimum amount of time has passed since the pause was started.

How it works
When you create a pause, it will determine what the end time of that pause should be. Then a loop will be started that will continually check the current time against the end time. When the current time is equal or greater than the end time, the method will allow your program can resume.


Precision
The precision should be within 0.001 of a second, however, this will depend on how precise your system sleep is and other performance factors.
This module computes the pause duration between now and the future date, and then sleeps for half of this duration. After this time, it recomputes the new pause duration, repeating this process until the desired time is reached.


Install
Download the source code and run the following command:
sudo python ./setup.py install
Or, without downloading, install with pip:
sudo pip install pause


Examples:
Pause for half a second:
import pause
pause.milliseconds(500)
Or:
import pause
pause.seconds(0.5)
Pause for 1 minute:
import pause
pause.minutes(1)
Pause for 2 days:
import pause
pause.days(2)
Pause until a unix time, with millisecond precision:
import pause
pause.until(1370640569.7747359)
Pause using datetime:
import pause, datetime
dt = datetime.datetime(2013, 6, 2, 14, 36, 34, 383752)
pause.until(dt)


Functions


days(num)
Pause for this many days




hours(num)
Pause for this many hours




milliseconds(num)
Pause for this many milliseconds




minutes(num)
Pause for this many minutes




seconds(num)
Pause for this many seconds




time(num)
Same as PauseFor.seconds()




until(time)
Pause your program until a specific end time.
‘time’ is either a unix timestamp in seconds (i.e. seconds since Unix epoch) or datetime object




weeks(num)
Pause for this many weeks