Is there a way to not terminate a running thread in python

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There are a couple ways, both of which use the time library. First you'll need to import time. The first method is time.sleep(seconds), which is very simple, but sometimes you may need to do something else to run code while waiting. Here's some example code of the other method.

import time

timeStamp = time.time() #Records a number measured in epoch time
waitTime = 10

while time.time() - timeStamp < waitTime:
    #Run code here

Hope this helps