Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > But if the function itself runs for longer than 10 seconds, there > will be a major problem, as the sleep apparently takes the argument as > unsigned, and a negative number is a very big sleep!
"time.sleep()" takes a floating point number, so an underflow like for fixed-size integers in C shouldn't happen. What puzzles me here is your use of "apparently", because here a negative value actually raises an "IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument" when I call "sleep(-1)". The system I'm on is a Debian GNU/Linux system running on some x86 hardware, for the record, and I'm using Python 2.6.6. Uli -- Domino Laser GmbH Geschäftsführer: Thorsten Föcking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
