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Sleep ​

Sleep for a period of time. Accepts either a datetime.timedelta object or a number of milliseconds.

Arguments ​

  • step_id (str): Step ID. Should be unique within the function.
  • duration (int | datetime.timedelta): How long to sleep. Can be either a number of milliseconds or a datetime.timedelta object.

Examples ​

py
@inngest_client.create_function(
    fn_id="my_function",
    trigger=inngest.TriggerEvent(event="app/my_function"),
)
async def fn(ctx: inngest.Context) -> None:
    await ctx.step.sleep("zzz", datetime.timedelta(seconds=2))