How would I make a time delay?

[Savage Bananas]

Is there a way to make a time delay in renpy? How would I like make it so that after a character's dialouge shows up, a given amount of seconds later maybe the screen or something would change? Renpy is very based around the user having to click for changes to happen, but a time delay would be great. I've been using something like:

( A is some character btw)

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A "hi"

python:
import time
time.sleep(5)

A "This is after 5 seconds"

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So, what would happen here is that A would say hi, and 5 seconds later A would say "This is after 5 seconds". All good right? no, because if I click during any of those 5 seconds, it would think I have already clicked for the "this is after 5 seconds" and it would move on to other later dialouge. Is there any better way to do this?
Pls halppppp me

[Per K Grok]

Is there a way to make a time delay in renpy? How would I like make it so that after a character's dialouge shows up, a given amount of seconds later maybe the screen or something would change? Renpy is very based around the user having to click for changes to happen, but a time delay would be great. I've been using something like:

( A is some character btw)

----------------------------------------

A "hi"

python:
import time
time.sleep(5)

A "This is after 5 seconds"

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So, what would happen here is that A would say hi, and 5 seconds later A would say "This is after 5 seconds". All good right? no, because if I click during any of those 5 seconds, it would think I have already clicked for the "this is after 5 seconds" and it would move on to other later dialouge. Is there any better way to do this?
Pls halppppp me

You could do something like this

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    python:
        renpy.say(A, "Hi", interact=False)
        renpy.pause(delay=5.0, hard=True)
        renpy.say(A, "This is 5 seconds later.", interact=True)

more on renpy.say here
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/statemen ... #renpy.say

more on renpy.pause here
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/other.ht ... enpy.pause
and why hard pause is not encouraged.

[Remix]

Or use {w=5.0} tag to make it wait 5 seconds then {nw} tag to make the dialogue not need interaction:

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label start:

    e "Hi{w=2.0}{nw}"
    e "There{w=2.0}{nw}"
    e "Stranger"