How bad of an idea is it to use time.sleep() for 12 hours? (Python 3.8)

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Answer 1

I'd recommend using apscheduler if you need to run the code once in an hour (or more):

from apscheduler.schedulers.blocking import BlockingScheduler

def main():
   Do something

scheduler = BlockingScheduler()
scheduler.add_job(main, "interval", hours=12)
scheduler.start()