def wait(self, timeout=None):
        if not self._is_owned():
            raise RuntimeError("cannot wait on un-aquired lock")
        waiter = _allocate_lock()
        waiter.acquire()
        self.__waiters.append(waiter)
        saved_state = self._release_save()
        try:    # restore state no matter what (e.g., KeyboardInterrupt)
            if timeout is None:
                waiter.acquire()
                if __debug__:
                    self._note("%s.wait(): got it", self)
            else:
                # Balancing act:  We can't afford a pure busy loop, so we
                # have to sleep; but if we sleep the whole timeout time,
                # we'll be unresponsive.  The scheme here sleeps very
                # little at first, longer as time goes on, but never longer
                # than 20 times per second (or the timeout time remaining).
                endtime = _time() + timeout
                delay = 0.0005 # 500 us -> initial delay of 1 ms
                while True:
                    gotit = waiter.acquire(0)
                    if gotit:
                        break
                    remaining = endtime - _time()
                    if remaining <= 0:
                        break
                    delay = min(delay * 2, remaining, .05)
                    _sleep(delay)
                if not gotit:
                    if __debug__:
                        self._note("%s.wait(%s): timed out", self, timeout)
                    try:
                        self.__waiters.remove(waiter)
                    except ValueError:
                        pass
                else:
                    if __debug__:
                        self._note("%s.wait(%s): got it", self, timeout)
        finally:
            self._acquire_restore(saved_state)
dataset/ETHPy150Open deanhiller/databus/webapp/play1.3.x/python/Lib/threading.py/_Condition.wait/original