Python time.sleep() vs event.wait()

Question

I want to perform an action at a regular interval in my multi-threaded Python application. I have seen two different ways of doing it

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Answer 1

It is interesting to note that the event.wait() method can be invoked on its own:

from threading import Event # Needed for the  wait() method
from time import sleep     

print("\n Live long and prosper!")
sleep(1)               # Conventional sleep() Method.
print("\n Just let that soak in..")   
Event().wait(3.0) # wait() Method, useable sans thread.
print("\n Make it So! = )\n")

So why -not- use wait() as an alternative to sleep() outside of multi-threading? In a word, Zen. (Of course.) Clarity of code is an important thing.