How accurate is python's time.sleep()?

Question

I can give it floating point numbers, such as

time.sleep(0.5)

but how accurate is it? If i give it

time.sleep(0.05)
         


        

Answer 1

A small correction, several people mention that sleep can be ended early by a signal. In the 3.6 docs it says,

Changed in version 3.5: The function now sleeps at least secs even if the sleep is interrupted by a signal, except if the signal handler raises an exception (see PEP 475 for the rationale).