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Answer: time.sleep — sleeps thread or process? #programming #solution #it

time.sleep sleeps thread or process?

In Python for the *nix, does time.sleep() block the thread or the process?

Answer [by finnw]: time.sleep sleeps thread or process?

Just the thread.

Answer [by Zach Burlingame]: time.sleep sleeps thread or process?

It will just sleep the thread except in the case where your application has only a single thread, in which case it will sleep the thread and…

How to: Why does tuple(set(1,"a","b","c","z","f")) == tuple(set("a","b","c","z","f",1)) 85% of the time with hash randomization enabled?

Why does tuple(set([1,"a","b","c","z","f"])) == tuple(set(["a","b","c","z","f",1])) 85% of the time with hash randomization enabled?

Given Zero Piraeus’ answer to another question, we have that

x = tuple(set([1, "a", "b", "c", "z", "f"])) y = tuple(set(["a", "b", "c", "z", "f", 1])) print(x == y)

Prints True about 85% of the time with hash randomization enabled. Why 85%?

Answer: Why does…

How to: How does the @property decorator work?

How does the @property decorator work?

I would like to understand how the built-in function property works. The confusing part for me is that property can be a decorator as well while it does not have arguments for decorating a function.

This example is from the documentation:

class C(object): def __init__(self): self._x = None def getx(self): return self._x def setx(self, value): self._x =…

How to: Why is it slower to iterate over a small string than a small list?

Why is it slower to iterate over a small string than a small list?

I was playing around with timeit and noticed that doing a simple list comprehension over a small string took longer than doing the same operation on a list of small single character strings. Any explanation? It’s almost 1.35 times as much time.

>>> from timeit import timeit >>> timeit("[x for x in 'abc']") 2.0691067844831528 >>>…