To pause or delay the execution of a Python program, you can use the time.sleep() function. Here’s an example of how to use time.sleep() to pause the program for 5 seconds:
import time
print("Starting program...")
time.sleep(5)
print("5 seconds have passed!")
In the example above, time.sleep(5) pauses the program for 5 seconds before the final print statement is executed.
Note that time.sleep() takes the number of seconds to pause as an argument, which can be a floating point value if you need to pause for less than a whole number of seconds.
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