30-seconds-of-code/snippets/delay.md

title, tags

title	tags
delay	function,intermediate

Invokes the provided function after ms milliseconds.

Use sleep() to delay the execution of fn by ms / 1000 seconds.

from time import sleep

def delay(fn, ms, *args):
  sleep(ms / 1000)
  return fn(*args)

delay(
  lambda x: print(x),
  1000,
  'later'
) # prints 'later' after one second