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		arthurcolle on Oct 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Schedule – Python job scheduling for humans Why is the time.sleep(1) needed inside the while loop?

Drdrdrq on Oct 3, 2015 | [–]

Otherwise app would burn CPU like crazy...

est on Oct 3, 2015 | [–]

Because that's one second resolution of the scheduler.

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