Minimum value of plt.pause()

Question

I'm using matplotlib's pause function.

https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.pause.html

What is the range of the value which is acceptable in the pause function?

Answer 1

[ 0.01000...00001 seconds ] minimum value

This is what i found..

plt.pause(interval=timeout) 

calls to:

def start_event_loop(timeout):
  if timeout <= 0: timeout = np.inf
  timestep = 0.01
  counter = 0
  self._looping = True
  while self._looping and counter * timestep < timeout:
    self.flush_events()
    time.sleep(timestep)
    counter += 1

wich calls time.sleep at intervals of 0.01 sec.

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