Trying to simulate constant byte rate. Confusion with time.sleep results

Question

Context

I\'m using windows 7 on my computer(the player) and linux(debian) on my college computer(the streamer), which I control using ssh.
I was trying to simu

Answer 1

Conclusion

Thanks to @J.F.Sebastian and his code, I came to learned that:

• Its better to use use a deadline as a time reference than create to a new reference each loop
• Using a deadline "amortizes" the imprecision of time.sleep, oscilating a bit around the desired bitrate but resulting in an correct(and much more constant) average.
• You only need to you use time.time() once, that means less calculations imprecisions.

As a result, I get a constant 32000 B/s some times oscilating to 31999 and very rarely to 31745
Now I can hear the music without any lag or jitter!

I tried using @J.F.Sebastian implentation using only the % operator to sleep the remainder, but the KB/s oscilate strangelly, so I decided to keep the deadline implementation, which suffers imprecision by keeping adding a float value. Nevertheless, the overall result is enough for my needs.
Thank you everyone.

Final Code

def read(self):
    self.deadline += 0.020  
    delay = self.deadline - time.perf_counter()
    if delay > 0:
        time.sleep(delay)
    return self._read()