How to delay a command in Python?

Question

Let's say we have two commands:

print("Hello")
print("How are you?")

If we execute this, we will get these two sentences printed.

I want the command 2 to be executed after 5 seconds the command 1 is executed. Is it possible to achieve this in Python?

please specify if you want to just wait for 5 seconds or run the second command in an async manner, meaning that if you put a 3d command after the 2d one, the will get executed in the order: `1, 3, [delay] 2` — YakovL, Dec 18 '18 at 20:41
Possible duplicate of [Correct way to pause Python program](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11552320/correct-way-to-pause-python-program) — takendarkk, Dec 18 '18 at 20:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 18 '18 at 19:53

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import time     

print("Hello")
time.sleep(5)
print("How are you?")

answered Dec 18 '18 at 19:53

Wes Doyle

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 18 '18 at 19:54

1

import time
time.sleep(5)

answered Dec 18 '18 at 19:54

ehacinom

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 12 '22 at 18:05

0

First, you need to import the time function the only code you need is:

time.sleep(5)

this function will make the code sleep (delay)

so you can just us

import time

print('Hello') 
time.sleep(5) 
print('How are you')

this will first execute the first line then sleep for 5 seconds then print how are you

answered Jun 12 '22 at 18:05

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