I want to control the execution interval of Python code in detail. (I used time.sleep)

Question

There is a certain While infinite loop statement, but given the Time.sleep(0.001) condition, it only executes 700 times per second. I want to run 5,000 to 50,000 times per second, but the argument of time.sleep() can't be lower than 0.001?

import time

i = int()
while True:
    time.sleep(0.001)
    #~
    #Code Block(It's private because it's code I'm reluctant to reveal.)
    #~
    print("%d"&i) #700 print() calls per second.

I don't think Python runs fast enough to even print that many numbers in a second without sleep — OneCricketeer, Dec 04 '21 at 16:20
@OneCricketeer Yes, it is. So I want to put the argument of sleep() smaller than 0.001. But it doesn't seem to be able to apply a factor lower than 0.001 in Python. — Tim-Richard, Dec 04 '21 at 16:24
If you want the code to run faster, blocking the thread is clearly not the answer, regardless of how low the value can be — OneCricketeer, Dec 04 '21 at 16:27
On ideone - `timeit.timeit(lambda: "-".join(map(str, range(1000))), number=10000))` - takes longer than 1 second, so 5000 or 50000 will definitely take longer — OneCricketeer, Dec 04 '21 at 16:34
Warning that time.sleep may sleep longer than the requested interval. See https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html?highlight=sleep#time.sleep — Luke Nelson, Dec 04 '21 at 16:47
Try Unix time? https://stackoverflow.com/a/62719717/15350738 — bobtho'-', Dec 04 '21 at 16:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 04 '21 at 18:25

time.sleep(0.001) sleeps for 1 ms or 1/1000 sec. Therefore you cannot get more than 1000 loops per second.

but the argument of time.sleep() can't be lower than 0.001

This is not true. The argument to time.sleep() is a float: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.sleep

I want to control the execution interval of Python code in detail. (I used time.sleep)

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