Pausing a while loop

Question

I have a query for a small program that I am running. I was wondering if there was any way to pause a while loop in python for an amount of time? Say for example if I wanted it to print something out, then pause for say (1) second, then print it out again?

There is not really a point to this program I am more doing it for something to do while bored. I have checked other questions and none seemed to really answer what I was asking.

[`time.sleep`](https://docs.python.org/2/library/time.html#time.sleep) — , May 21 '14 at 01:03
What questions did you already check and how did they not answer your question? — mhlester, May 21 '14 at 01:08
I probably didn't check hard enough but when I did check I couldn't find anything that answered my questions — steamidge_, May 25 '14 at 23:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 21 '14 at 01:04

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import time
while ...
    print your line
    time.sleep(1) # sleep for one second

time sleep method

answered May 21 '14 at 01:04

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 21 '14 at 01:04

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Yes. There is a function called sleep that does exactly what you want:

while true:
  print "Hello!\n"
  time.sleep(1)

answered May 21 '14 at 01:04

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Pausing a while loop

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